pan
pan
- n cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- n (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
- n shallow container made of metal
- n chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
- v make a sweeping movement
The camera panned across the room - v wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- v express a totally negative opinion of
The critics panned the performance
- Last week Pan American Airways stretched its lines to within 6,000 miles of encircling the globe.
- The airline industry has been swept by a Jetstream of rumors for weeks that the Pan American World Airways board was locked in a bitter intramural fight over the company's top.
- Put a lot of olive oil in a pan.