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      pan
      noun
      A surname.
      (Greek mythology) Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.
      (astronomy) An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.
      A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
      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.
      (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, especially
      A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
      (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
      (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
      Strong adverse criticism.
      (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
      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.
      A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
      A part; a portion.
      (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
      A leaf of gold or silver.
      Ellipsis of Peter Pan. [A man who acts like a child and does not accept the responsibilities of adulthood.]
      Acronym of primary account number.
      Acronym of personal area network. [A communications network intended for devices within one person's workspace (a small room or cubicle); it is typically wireless.]
      (linguistics) Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian. [A proposed common ancestor to the group of Austronesian languages comprising Malayo-Polynesian and Formosan languages.]
      (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyacrylonitrile. [(organic chemistry) Any polymer or copolymer of acrylonitrile; they are mostly resins that are used to make fibers for fabrics]
      (organic chemistry) Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate. [An urban air pollutant formed photochemically in the air as part of photochemical smog.]
      (organic chemistry) Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.
      (music) Ellipsis of steelpan. [(music, countable) A percussion instrument consisting of a drum made of steel, originally from Trinidad.]
      Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water. [Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.]
      (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans. [A distinct layer of soil that is largely impervious to water.]
      Alternative form of paan. [(India) A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.]
      (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph. [A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid.]
      (UK, slang, obsolete) The workhouse in St Pancras, London.
      (geology, obsolete South Africa) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
      (obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
      verb
      (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
      (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
      (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
      (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
      (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
      (photography, intransitive) 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.
      (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
      (sound engineering, transitive) 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.
      (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
      To join or fit together; to unite.
      adjective
      (informal) Pansexual or panromantic.
      Synonyms for pan
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