pan has definitions from the fields of biology,zoology,food,Greek mythology,religion,mining
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[ noun ] (food) cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel

Synonyms

cooking_pan

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

He saw Mose squatting by the hearth , breaking_up hardtack into a pan .

He dumped the pan of crumbled hardtack into the boiling pot of lobscouse .

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

Argiento made him lie_down on the bed , brought a pan of hot water , dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter .

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

He found the pan where he had dropped it and carried it back down to the stream .

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned_out .

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[ verb ] make a sweeping movement

Examples

"The camera panned across the room"

Used in print

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

After a_few tortuous moments of wondering who `` he '' is , the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue , and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in_the_eyes_of a mute piece of sculpture .

Related terms

travel

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[ verb ] (mining) wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals

Synonyms

pan_off pan_out

Used in print

(Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)

An old shipwreck , a high dam , an old covered bridge , a place to find agates or other semi-precious stones or a place to pan gold , etcetera may be of interest .

Related terms

wash

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[ noun ] (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

Synonyms

the_goat_god

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[ verb ] express a totally negative opinion of

Synonyms

tear_apart trash

Examples

"The critics panned the performance"

Related terms

disparage

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[ noun ] shallow container made of metal
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 11005
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[ noun ] (biology,zoology) chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids

Synonyms

genus_Pan

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