Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PAN

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Definitions of PAN

1. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
2. The contents of such a receptacle.
3. A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
4. A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
5. Strong adverse criticism.
6. A loaf of bread.
7. The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
8. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
9. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
10. To join or fit together; to unite.
11. A part; a portion.
12. A leaf of gold or silver.
13. (Greek god) Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.
14. (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.
15. A surname.
16. Ellipsis of Peter Pan.
17. A suburb in Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
18. (linguistics) Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian.
19. Acronym of primary account number.
20. Acronym of personal area network.
21. (organic compound) Initialism of polyacrylonitrile.
22. (organic compound) Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate.
23. (organic compound) Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.
24. (rail transport, informal) Short for pantograph.
25. (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
26. (geography, geology) An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
27. (geology) Short for hardpan.: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
28. (geology, obsoleteSouth Africa) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
29. A bedpan.
30. (slang) A human face, a mug.
31. (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
32. (firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
33. (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
34. (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
35. (musical instrument) Short for steelpan.
36. (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
37. (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
38. (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
39. (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
40. (intransitive, of a camera, etc.) To turn horizontally.
41. (intransitive, 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.
42. (intransitive, imaging) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
43. (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.
44. A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
45. Alternative form of paan.
46. (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
47. (informal) Pansexual or panromantic.

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Examples of Using PAN in a Sentence

• The Okavango Delta, one of the world's largest inland deltas, is in the northwest and the Makgadikgadi Pans, a large salt pan lies in the north-central area.
• In April 1966, Pan Am ordered 25 Boeing 747-100 aircraft, and in late 1966, Pratt & Whitney agreed to develop the JT9D engine, a high-bypass turbofan.
• Evidence from fossils and DNA sequencing shows that Pan is a sister taxon to the human lineage and is thus humans' closest living relative.
• Tribe Hominini includes: the extant genus Homo, which comprises only one extant species—the modern humans (Homo sapiens), and numerous extinct human species; and the extant genus Pan, which includes two extant species, chimpanzees and bonobos.
• A PAN provides data transmission among devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets and personal digital assistants.
• Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown in fullscreen proportions of a standard-definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus on the composition's most important aspects.
• A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).
• PAGAD was founded by a handful of Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and community members from a Cape Town townships who decided to organize public demonstrations to pressure the government to fight the illegal drug trade and gangsterism more effectively.
• It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms.
• Being pursued by Pan, she fled into the river Ladon, and at her own request was metamorphosed into a reed from which Pan then made his panpipes.
• Originally developed for Czechoslovak military use and export, Semtex eventually became popular with armed groups and insurgents because, prior to the 2000s, it was extremely difficult to detect, as in the case of Pan Am Flight 103.
• "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game before writing the song.
• Woks are used in a range of Chinese cooking techniques, including stir frying, steaming, pan frying, deep frying, poaching, boiling, braising, searing, stewing, making soup, smoking and roasting nuts.
• From left, clockwise: the oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; the USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655, killing all 290 people on board; Australia celebrates its Bicentennial on January 26; the 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea; Soviet troops begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is completed the next year; an earthquake in Armenia kills between 25,000 and 50,000 people; the 8888 Uprising in Myanmar, led by students, protests the Burma Socialist Programme Party; a bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103, causing the plane to crash down on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland – the event kills 270 people.
• Member of Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN), member-co-founder of Polish Information Processing Society ("Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne", PTI), member of American Mathematical Society, Operations Research Society of America, member of Poznan Chapter of Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters.
• A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959).
• He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan, after which Romans depicted him as a horned god.
• While bonobos are, today, recognized as a distinct species in their own right, they were initially thought to be a subspecies of Pan troglodytes, due to the physical similarities between the two species.
• He worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN).
• It is used at room temperature as a spread, melted as a condiment, and used as a fat in baking, sauce-making, pan frying, and other cooking procedures.
• The dish takes its name from the wide, shallow traditional pan used to cook the dish on an open fire, paella being the word for a frying pan in Valencian/Catalan language.
• The celebration is not solely focused on the dead, as it is also common to give gifts to friends such as candy sugar skulls, to share traditional pan de muerto with family and friends, and to write light-hearted and often irreverent verses in the form of mock epitaphs dedicated to living friends and acquaintances, a literary form known as.
• Deep frying (also referred to as deep fat frying) is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot fat, traditionally lard but today most commonly oil, as opposed to the shallow frying used in conventional frying done in a frying pan.
• Pan frying or pan-frying is a form of frying food characterized by the use of minimal cooking oil or fat (compared to shallow frying or deep frying), typically using just enough to lubricate the pan.
• The primary mode of heat transfer during sautéing is conduction between the pan and the food being cooked.

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