pan1 /pan/ noun- Any broad, shallow container used in the home, in the arts or in industry
- A saucepan
- Anything of similar shape, such as the upper part of the skull (brain-pan) or the patella (knee-pan)
- A lavatory bowl
- A hollow in the ground, a basin, in which water collects in the rainy season, leaving a salt deposit on evaporation
- A salt pan
- A saltworks
- The part of a firelock that holds the priming
- A hard layer (hard-pan) in or under the soil
- A small ice floe
- A hollow metal drum as played in a steel band
- A panful
- The face (slang)
transitive verb (pannˈing; panned)- To wash in a goldminer's pan
- To obtain by evaporating in a pan
- To yield
- To obtain
- To cook and serve in a pan
- To review or criticize harshly (informal)
intransitive verb- To wash earth for gold
- To yield gold (usu with out)
- To result, turn out (with out)
- To come to an end, be exhausted (with out)
- To cake
- To enlarge or embellish in speech
ORIGIN: OE panne; a word common to the W Gmc languages, poss an early borrowing from L patina panˈful noun (pl panˈfuls) pannˈikel noun (obsolete) A pannicle pannˈikin noun - A small metal cup
- A little pan or saucer
- Enough to fill a cup
pannˈing noun - Washing for gold
- The gold so obtained
- Harsh criticism (informal)
panˈcake noun - A thin flat round cake of eggs, flour, sugar, and milk, fried in a pan
- Pancake make-up
- An aircraft descent made in an emergency with the wheels up and landing flat on the belly of the aircraft (also adjective)
intransitive verb - To descend or alight in such a way
- (of a building) to collapse concertina-like
transitive verb To cause to make a pancake (descent or landing) pancake bell noun A church bell rung on Shrove Tuesday, taken as the signal for pancake-making Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday noun Shrove Tuesday pancake ice noun Polar sea ice in thin flat slabs, found as winter draws near pancake make-up noun Cosmetic in cake form, moist, or moistened before application pan drop noun (Scot) A hard smooth peppermint sweet made in a revolving pan panˈ-fry transitive verb To fry in a shallow pan panˈhandle noun A strip of territory stretching out from the main body like the handle of a pan intransitive verb and transitive verb (US) To beg (from someone) esp on the street panˈhandler noun pan loaf noun (Scot) A loaf baked in an individual tin, with a crust all round, opp to a plain loaf panˈstick noun Foundation make-up like pancake make-up but in stick form flash in the pan - A mere flash in the pan of a flintlock without discharge
- A fitful show of beginning without accomplishing anything
- A brief success
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