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Pan   /pæn/   Listen
Pan

noun
1.
Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.  Synonym: cooking pan.
2.
(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.  Synonym: goat god.
3.
Shallow container made of metal.
4.
Chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids.  Synonym: genus Pan.
verb
(past & past part. panned; pres. part. panning)
1.
Make a sweeping movement.
2.
Wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals.  Synonyms: pan off, pan out.
3.
Express a totally negative opinion of.  Synonyms: tear apart, trash.



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"Pan" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the kitchen door, a pan in her hand, a flock of expectant chickens craning their necks to see what she had to offer, at the instant that Sol came around the corner of the house. She all but let the pan fall in her amazement, and the song was cut off between her lips in the middle of a word, for ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... happened, he took his wooden shoe, broke the ice crust to pieces, and carried the Duckling home to his wife. Then it came to itself again. The children wanted to play with it; but the Duckling thought they wanted to hurt it, and in its terror fluttered up into the milk pan, so that the milk spurted down into the room. The woman clasped her hands, at which the Duckling flew down into the butter tub, and then into the meal barrel and out again. How it looked then! The woman screamed, and struck at it with the fire tongs; the children tumbled ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten

... Louis Brownlow and W. Gwynn Gardiner; former Commissioners Henry F. MacFarland and Simon Wolf; Major Raymond S. Pullman, Chief of Police; Resident Commissioner and Mme. Jaime De Veyra (Philippine Islands); Resident Commissioner Felix C. Davila (Porto Rico); John Barrett, director of the Pan-American Union; Major-General W. C. Gorgas; the Reverends U. G. B. Pierce, Henry N. Couden, chaplain of the House of Representatives; James Shera Montgomery, Rabbi Abram Simon, John Van Schaick, president of the School Board; Theodore ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... pan o' milk, missus, and set on t' kettle. Milk may do for wenches, but Philip and me is for a drop o' good Hollands and watter this cold night. I'm a'most chilled to t' marrow wi' looking out for thee, lass, for t' mother was in a peck o' troubles about thy ...
— Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... stove and busied herself with coffee-pot and frying-pan while she talked—"this was the Wreck Island House oncet upon a time. I calculate it's that now, only it ain't run as a hotel any more. It's been years since there was any summer folks come here—place didn't pay, they said; guess that's why they shet ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance


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