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n. A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes.

n. A vessel similar in form to a pan, especially:

n. An open metal dish used to separate gold or other metal from gravel or waste by washing.

n. Either of the receptacles on a balance or pair of scales.

n. A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.

n. A basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water.

n. A natural or artificial basin used to obtain salt by evaporating brine.

n. Hardpan.

n. A freely floating piece of ice that has broken off a larger floe.

n. The small cavity in the lock of a flintlock used to hold powder.

n. Music A steel drum.

n. Slang The face.

n. Informal Severe criticism, especially a negative review: gave the film a pan.

v. To wash (gravel, for example) in a pan for gold or other precious metal.

v. To cook (food) in a pan: panned the fish right after catching it.

v. Informal To criticize or review harshly.

verb-intransitive. To wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan.

verb-intransitive. To yield gold as a result of washing in a pan.

phrasal-verb. pan out To turn out well; be successful: "If I don't pan out as an actor I can still go back to school” ( Saul Bellow).

n. A leaf of the betel vine.

n. A chewing preparation of this leaf with betel nuts, spices, and lime, used in the Far East.

verb-intransitive. To move a movie or television camera to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.

v. To move (a camera) so as to follow a moving object or create a panoramic effect.

n. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking

n. The contents of such a receptacle

n. A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home

n. A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water

n. a specific type of lake, natural depression or basin. They are sometimes associated with desert areas

n. Strong adverse criticism

n. A loaf of bread

n. The base part of a toilet, consisting of a bowl and a footing

n. A human face, a mug.

n. The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel

v. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).

v. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.

v. With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.

v. To beat one's opposition convincingly.

v. to turn horizontally (of a camera etc.)

v. (photography) to move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.

n. A part; a portion.

n. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

n. A leaf of gold or silver.

v. To join or fit together; to unite.

n. The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See betel.

n. A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.

n. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.

n. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

n. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.

n. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

n. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.

n. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.

v. To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.

v. To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.

verb-intransitive. To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out.

verb-intransitive. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop.

v. To scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to keep the subject in view.

n. A broad shallow vessel of tin, iron, or other metal, used for various domestic purposes: as, a frying-pan; a saucepan; a milk-pan.

n. An open vessel used in the arts and manufactures for boiling, evaporating, etc.: as, a sugar-pan; a salt-pan. The name is also applied to closed vessels used for similar purposes: as, a vacuum-pan.

n. In metallurgy, a pan-shaped vessel, usually made of cast-iron, from 4 to 6 feet in diameter and 3 or 4 feet deep, in which the ores of silver which have already undergone the stamping process are ground to a fine pulp and amalgamated, with the addition of various chemicals, generally sulphate of copper and salt.

n. In tin-plate manuf., a cold pot with a grating at the bottom, in which tinned iron-plate is put on edge to drain and cool. It is the fourth in the series of iron pots used in tin-plate manufacture.

n. The part of a flint-lock which holds the priming, communicating with the charge by means of the touch-hole. See cut under flint-lock.

n. Anything hollow shaped somewhat like a pan; hence, the skull; the upper part of the head; the cranium. Compare brainpan.

n. A pond or depression for evaporating salt water to make salt.

n. A natural pond of any size containing fresh or salt water, or only mud.

n. Consolidated material underlying the soil: used (especially in Scotland) for hard-pan.

n. In carpentry, the socket for a hinge.

n. In the arctic seas, a large heavy piece of floe-ice.

n. The broad posterior extremity of the lower jaw of a whale: a whalers' term.

In mining, to wash with the pan, as gravel or sands for the purpose of separating the gold or other thing of value they may contain: often with out.

To secure; catch; obtain.

To make an appearance or to come to view, as gold in a miner's pan when washed from impurities; hence to show a result; turn out more or less to one's satisfaction: followed by out.

To join; close together.

To unite; fit; agree.

n. In anc. Gr. myth., the god of pastures, forests, and flocks.

n. A square of framing in half-timbered houses. Gwilt.

n. A leaf of gold or silver.

n. A betel-leaf in which an areca-nut is wrapped to form a masticatory. See betel, areca-nut.

n. An element in many words of Greek origin, meaning ‘all’, ‘universal.’

n. In mining, a hollow in the ground where the neck of a volcano formerly existed.

To broil or bake in a pan.

To pour with a pan.

To look for gold, using the method of washing the earth or crushed rock in the pan.

In agriculture, to harden and cake from the effect of hot sunshine following rain: said of the soil.

n. shallow container made of metal

v. make a sweeping movement

n. (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus

v. wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals

n. cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel

v. express a totally negative opinion of

n. chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids

"He put a big tin pan from the kitchen on his head, used a broom for a gun on this shoulder, and he started to mark time like a soldier …"

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