Pan
[pæn]
Definition
(noun.) chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids.
(noun.) shallow container made of metal.
(noun.) cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
(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.
(verb.) express a totally negative opinion of; 'The critics panned the performance'.
(verb.) wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals.
(verb.) make a sweeping movement; 'The camera panned across the room'.
Edited by Hattie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A part; a portion.
(n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
(n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
(v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
(n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
(n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
(n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
(n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
(n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
(n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
(n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
(n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
(n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
(v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
(v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
(v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
Edited by Bonita
Definition
n. the Greek god of pastures flocks and woods worshipped in Arcadia and fond of music—with goat's legs and feet and sometimes horns and ears.—n. Pan's′-pipes (see Pandean).
n. a broad shallow vessel for domestic use or for use in the arts or manufactures: anything resembling a pan in shape as the upper part of the skull: the part of a firelock which holds the priming.—v.t. to treat with the panning process as earth or to separate by shaking the auriferous earth with water in a pan: to obtain in any way to secure: to cook and serve in a pan.—v.i. to yield gold: to appear as gold in a pan: to turn out well according to expectation: to try to find gold with the pan process.—Pan out to yield or afford to result; Panned out (U.S.) exhausted bankrupt.—Flash in the pan to flash and go out suddenly not igniting the charge—of the powder in the pan of a flint-lock firearm: to fail after a fitful effort to give up without accomplishing anything; Hard-pan (see Hard).
Checked by Jo
Examples
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The chief writer of this Pan-Hellenic movement was Isocrates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A flash in the pan or a shot? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The vacuum pan was the invention of Howard, an Englishman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Why, gentlemen, who _does _trouble himself about a warming-pan? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The most practical methods of refining salt today are known as the Grainer, Vacuum Pan and Alberger systems. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The wet sheets of rubber are cut in square pieces, placed on perforated tin pans and loaded into the dryer, which will hold about eight hundred pounds of rubber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I say, isn't bread 'riz' enough when it runs over the pans? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Have you the sack of pans for the _m醧uina? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At present the crude open-pan system, where the brine was poured into open pans and fires were built below the pans, is almost obsolete. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The pans should be made of stout zinc one-half inch deep on the inside, with a lid or cover. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The length and breadth of the pans is determined by the class of copying to be done. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Bring the sack of pans and my little _m醧uina_, he shouted, and come running. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Of the former methods, when gold was found loose in sand or gravel, washing was the earliest and most universally practised, and was called panning. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The reports stated that the Mexicans had been panning gold for a hundred years out of these deposits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Mary