pan

pan is a 3-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive/intransitive verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Panto-. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. Alt. of Panto-
2. noun. A part; a portion.
3. noun. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
4. noun. A leaf of gold or silver.
5. transitive/intransitive verb. To join or fit together; to unite.
6. noun. The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
7. noun. 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, which he is said to have invented.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
10. noun. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
11. noun. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
12. noun. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
13. noun. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
14. noun. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
15. transitive verb. To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
16. intransitive verb. To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
17. intransitive verb. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
18. noun. chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
19. noun. shallow container made of metal
20. noun. cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
21. noun. (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
22. verb. express a totally negative opinion of

    "The critics panned the performance"

    Synonyms: trash

23. verb. wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
24. verb. make a sweeping movement

    "The camera panned across the room"

Synonyms

trash

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pan:

nap, npa

Common word forms

pans, paned, panes, panful, panned, panner, panning

Words from these letters

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