Dictionary Entry
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-
- 2noun
A part; a portion.
- 3noun
The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- 4noun
A leaf of gold or silver.
- 5transitive/intransitive verb
To join or fit together; to unite.
- 6noun
The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
- 10noun
The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
- 11noun
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
- 12noun
A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- 13noun
The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
- 14noun
A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
- 15transitive verb
To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
- 16intransitive verb
To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
- 17intransitive verb
To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
- 18noun
chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
- 19noun
shallow container made of metal
- 20noun
cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- 21noun
(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
- 22verb
express a totally negative opinion of
"The critics panned the performance"
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- 23verb
wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- 24verb
make a sweeping movement
"The camera panned across the room"
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