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

The contents of a wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

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

(Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.

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

(geography, geology) An expanse of level land located in a depression.

(geography, geology) A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.

(geography, geology, especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.

(geography, geology, South Africa) A temporary pond or lake in a playa.

(geography, geology) A flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.

(geology) A hard substrate such as is formed in pans.

(geology, obsolete South Africa) A channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels. +

Strong adverse criticism.

(chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.

(obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.

A bedpan.

(slang) A human face, a mug.

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

A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.

(firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.

(figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.

(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

(musical instrument) (steelpan)

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

(criticize)To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.) +

(with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.

(of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.

(of a camera, etc.) To turn horizontally.

(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.

(imaging) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.

(audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.

A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.

(paan)

To join or fit together; to unite.

A part; a portion.

(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

A leaf of gold or silver.

(informal) Pansexual or panromantic.

(rail transport, informal) Pantograph.