1. a broad, shallow container of metal, usually having sides flaring outward toward the top, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
2. any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.
3. the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful: a pan of shelled peas.
4. any of various open or closed containers used in industrial or mechanical processes.
5. a container in which silver ores are ground and amalgamated.
6. a container in which gold or other heavy, valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water.
7. a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay.
8. a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts.
9. a similar depression made artificially, as for evaporating salt water to make salt.
10. (in old guns) the depressed part of the lock, holding the priming.
11. an unfavorable review, critique, or appraisal: The show got one rave and three pans.
12. the face.

13. to criticize severely, as in a review of a play.
• to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate gold or other heavy, valuable metal.
• to separate (gold or other heavy, valuable metal) from gravel or sand in this way.
15. to cook or bake in a pan.

16. to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like.
17. to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan.

18. to turn out, especially successfully: The couple's reconciliation just didn't pan out.

1. to film, photograph, or televise something with the camera fixed in place and pivoted horizontally left or right, in order to keep a moving person or object in view or to capture a wide view: They usually pan from one end of the playing field to the other during the opening of the football game.
2. (of a camera) to be pivoted horizontally to the right or left from a fixed place in order to keep a moving person or object in view or to capture a wide view: The cameras panned occasionally during the scene.

3. to pivot (a camera) on its horizontal axis in order to follow a moving person or thing, or to capture an extended view: to pan the camera across the scene.
4. to photograph, film, or televise (a scene, moving character, etc.) by pivoting the camera on its horizontal axis:pan the skyline.
5. to direct (a signal output) to one of the speakers in a sound system, to a point between speakers, or, especially, through a continuum from one side to the other to create the impression that the source is moving: They gradually panned the vocal recording from the right to the left channel as the song progressed.

6. the act of pivoting a camera, which is fixed in place, to the left or right.
7. the filmed shot resulting from this.

1. a major vertical division of a wall.
2. a nogged panel of half-timber construction.

1. the leaf of the betel.
2. a substance, especially betel nut or a betel-nut mixture, used for chewing.

1. panguingue.

1. the ancient Greek god of forests, pastures, flocks, and shepherds, represented with the head, chest, and arms of a man and the legs and sometimes the horns and ears of a goat.

1. a combining form meaning “all,” occurring originally in loanwords from Greek (panacea; panoply), but now used freely as a general formative (panleukopenia; panorama; pantelegraph; pantheism; pantonality), and especially in terms, formed at will, implying the union of all branches of a group (Pan-Christian; Panhellenic; Pan-Slavism). The hyphen and the second capital tend with longer use to be lost, unless they are retained in order to set off clearly the component parts.

1. Panama.

• a wide metal vessel used in cooking
• (in combination)
2. the amount such a vessel will hold
3. any of various similar vessels used esp in industry, as for boiling liquids
4. a dish used by prospectors, esp gold prospectors, for separating a valuable mineral from the gravel or earth containing it by washing and agitating
5. either of the two dishlike receptacles on a balance
6. the bowl of a lavatory
• a natural or artificial depression in the ground where salt can be obtained by the evaporation of brine
• a natural depression containing water or mud
8. the indented top from an oil drum used as the treble drum in a steel band
9. See hardpan, brainpan
10. a small ice floe
11. a slang word for face (def. 1a)
12. a small cavity containing priming powder in the locks of old guns
13. a hard substratum of soil
14. short for pan loaf

15. to wash (gravel) in a pan to separate particles of (valuable minerals) from it
16. (of gravel) to yield valuable minerals by this process
17. to criticize harshly

1. to move (a film camera) or (of a film camera) to be moved so as to follow a moving object or obtain a panoramic effect

• the act of panning
• (as modifier)

1. the leaf of the betel tree
2. a preparation of this leaf which is chewed, together with betel nuts and lime, in India and the East Indies

1. the god of fields, woods, shepherds, and flocks, represented as a man with a goat's legs, horns, and ears

1. all or every
2. including or relating to all parts or members

1. Panama

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