| Noun | 1. | pan - cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vesselpatty-pan - a pan for cooking patties or pasties roaster - a special cooking pan for roasting saucepan - a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling wok - pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking | |
| 2. | Pan - (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 | |
| 3. | pan - shallow container made of metalbain-marie - a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans can be set in a bain-maire to keep food warm or to cook food slowly container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) dishpan - large pan for washing dishes drip pan - pan under a refrigerator for collecting liquid waste pannikin - a small pan or cup (usually of tin) warming pan - a long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed | |
| 4. | Pan - chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongidsfamily Pongidae, Pongidae - usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbons | |
| Verb | 1. | pan - make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room"go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" | |
| 2. | pan - wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious mineralswash - separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | |
| 3. | pan - express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" | |