pan

Meanings

Noun

• cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
• (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
• shallow container made of metal
• chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids

Verb

• make a sweeping movement
  • "The camera panned across the room"
• wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
• express a totally negative opinion of
  • "The critics panned the performance"

Synonyms

cooking pan, genus Pan, goat god, pan off, pan out, tear apart, trash