pan

Plural: pans, pen

Noun

cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
(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
shallow container made of metal
chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
The contents of such a receptacle.
A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
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.
An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
Strong adverse criticism.
A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
A bedpan.
A human face, a mug.
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.
The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
The brain, seen as one's intellect.
A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
Ellipsis of steelpan.
A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
Alternative form of paan.
A part; a portion.
The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
A leaf of gold or silver.
Clipping of pantograph.

Verb

Verb Forms: panned, panning, pans

To criticize harshly or express strong disapproval of.
make a sweeping movement
- "The camera panned across the room"
wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
express a totally negative opinion of
- "The critics panned the performance"
To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
To turn out well; to be successful.
To beat one's opposition convincingly.
(of a camera) To turn horizontally.
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° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
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.
(of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
To join or fit together; to unite.

Adj

Pansexual or panromantic.

Examples

flash in the pan
He hoped his fellow Words With Friends players wouldn’t PAN his latest, somewhat dubious, word choice.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ, from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek.
Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna.

Synonyms

cooking pan, genus Pan, goat god, pan off, pan out, tear apart, trash, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, berate, berisp, blast, castigate, censure, chamber pot, chastise, chew out, chide, condemn, cookie sheet, criticize, denounce, denunciate, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, frying pan, fulminate, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lecture, light into, objurgate, panto, pipe, playa lake, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, saucepan, savage, scold, skillet, slam, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tin, toilet, tosh, upbraid, vilify, vituperate

Scrabble Score: 5

pan: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pan: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pan: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

pan: valid Words With Friends Word