Definition of "pan" in Englisch

noun

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
(geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
(geology, obsolete South Africa) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
Strong adverse criticism.
(chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
(obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
A bedpan.
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the sheets! Unreal.
(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.
- flash in the pan
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
(figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Friar's Tale, Unto the devil rough and black of hue Give I thy body and my pan also."
(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
(music) Ellipsis of steelpan.

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.

verb

(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.

noun

A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.

noun

Alternative form of paan.

verb

To join or fit together; to unite.
- 31 May 1884, Leeds Mercury Pan it down—press an article into its proper place

noun

A part; a portion.
(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
A leaf of gold or silver.

adjective

(informal) Pansexual or panromantic.
- Another anonymous pansexual disclosed, "Sometimes I feel really left out because I'm pan. […] "
- A similar experience is shared by individuals who identify their sexuality as pan, bi or queer.

noun

(rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.