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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan \Pan\, n. [OE. See 2d {Pane}.] 1. A part; a portion. [1913 Webster] 2. (Fort.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle. [1913 Webster] 3. [Perh. a different word.] A leaf of gold or silver. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan- \Pan-\, Panta- \Pan"ta-\, Panto- \Pan"to-\ [Gr. ?, m., ?, neut., gen. ?, all.] Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan \Pan\, v. t. & i. [Cf. F. pan skirt, lappet, L. pannus a cloth, rag, W. panu to fur, to full.] To join or fit together; to unite. [Obs.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan \Pan\, n. [Hind. p[=a]n, Skr. parna leaf.] The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See {Betel}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan \Pan\, prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Gr. Myth.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe (also called the pipes of Pan), which he is said to have invented. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan \Pan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Panned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Panning}.] 1. (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. --Gen. W. T. Sherman. [1913 Webster] 2. To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan \Pan\, n. [OE. panne, AS. panne; cf. D. pan, G. pfanne, OHG. pfanna, Icel., Sw., LL., & Ir. panna, of uncertain origin; cf. L. patina, E. paten.] 1. A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. "A bowl or a pan." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See {Vacuum pan}, under {Vacuum}. [1913 Webster] 3. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming. [1913 Webster] 4. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. (Carp.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge. [1913 Webster] 6. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See {Hard pan}, under {Hard}. [1913 Webster] 7. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud. [1913 Webster] {Flash in the pan}. See under {Flash}. {To savor of the pan}, to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical. --Ridley. Southey. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan \Pan\, v. i. 1. (Mining) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly. [1913 Webster] 2. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. [Slang, U. S.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pan \Pan\, v. t. & i. (Cinematography) To scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to keep the subject in view. [PJC] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: pan n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn: {pan}, {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 [syn: {Pan}, {goat god}] 3: shallow container made of metal 4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids [syn: {Pan}, {genus Pan}] v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room" 2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals [syn: {pan}, {pan out}, {pan off}] 3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" [syn: {pan}, {tear apart}, {trash}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: PAN Personal Area Networking [profile] (Bluetooth) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: PAN Personal Account Number From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: PAN Personal Area Network (IBM, Bluetooth) From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: pan /pɑ̃/ bit; lump; piece From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: Pan /pɑ̃/ Pan From Spanish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-spa-eng]: pan bread; loaf(pano) From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: pan /pɑn/ 1. casserole; saucepan 2. cookingpot 3. frying‐pan; fryingpan 4. jug; pot From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: Pan /pɑn/ Pan