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Pan¹
- /pæn/
- [pʰæn]
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
From Middle English Pan, from Latin Pān, from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).
proper noun
- Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. Near-synonyms: Faunus, Pales (Roman counterparts, not identical)
- An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.
Pan²
- /pæn/
- [pʰæn]
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Mandarin 潘.
proper noun Pans
- A surname.
noun Pans
- Ellipsis of Peter Pan.Peter Pan
Pan³
- /pæn/
- [pʰæn]
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
proper noun
- A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
Pan⁴
- /pæn/
- [pʰæn]
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
Shortening.
proper noun the Pan
- The workhouse in St Pancras, London.
PAN⁵
proper noun
- Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian.Proto-Austronesian
noun PANs
- Acronym of personal area network.personal area network
- Acronym of primary account number.primary account number
- Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate.peroxyacetyl nitrate
- Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.phenylacetonitrile
- Initialism of polyacrylonitrile.polyacrylonitrile
pan⁶
- /pæn/ UK
- /pan/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /pæn/ Canada, US
- [peə̯n] ~ [pɛə̯n] Canada, US
- /pæːn/ Australia
- [peːn] Australia
- /pɛn/ New Zealand
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
substratebor.?
Pre-Greekder.?
Ancient Greek πᾰτᾰ́νη (pătắnē)bor.
Latin patina?
Latin pannabor.?
Proto-Germanic *pannǭ
Proto-West Germanic *pannā
Old English panne
Middle English panne
English pan
From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ. Further origin uncertain.
Alois Walde firstly suggests that it might be from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek. But the sound shifting from /patina/ → /patna/ → /panna/ raises questions as -tn- to -nn- is rarely seen in Latin.
The mainstream theory as of now (Friedrich Kluge, Julius Pokorny, Guus Kroonen) suggests that it is from Late Latin panna. But its sparse attestation only in the frontier inscriptions and not widespread in most Romance languages raises doubts among a few scholars (notably Michiel de Vaan), being skeptical about its origin, and open for any interpretations (Oxford English Dictionary).
Vladmir Orel, in his work Albanian Etymological Dictionary, suggests that both Proto-Germanic *pannǭ and Late Latin panna could be from a non-IE Mediterranean substrate word, considering that classical Latin attestations are scarce and distributed in a specific region, and Proto-Germanic loanwords from non-IE substrates often include agricultural terms, seafaring vocabulary, or animal names. Although, this substrate hypothesis is controversial and most scholars remain skeptical about it.
In either case of relationship to the Latin, the English word is a doublet of patina; see there for more doublets and further detail.
Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna.
noun pans · pen
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.salt pan
- Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.hardpan
- Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
- Strong adverse criticism. The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed.
- A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
- A bedpan. 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the sheets! Unreal.
- A human face, a mug. "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."
- The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming. Holonym: firearm
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- The brain, seen as one's intellect. 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Friar's Tale, Unto the devil rough and black of hue Give I thy body and my pan also."
- A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- Ellipsis of steelpan.steelpan The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members.
verb pans · panning · panned
- To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold). 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.
- To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.) Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.
- To turn out well; to be successful.
- To beat one's opposition convincingly.
pan⁷
- /pæn/ UK
- /pan/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /pæn/ Canada, US
- [peə̯n] ~ [pɛə̯n] Canada, US
- /pæːn/ Australia
- [peːn] Australia
- /pɛn/ New Zealand
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
Clipping of panorama.
verb pans · panning · panned
- (of a camera) To turn horizontally. Later today in Finsbury Park, the cameras would spend hours panning across 35,000 festivalgoers in search of pickpockets, drunken brawlers, and other assorted agents of petty mischief.
- To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed. As one can only "pan" at 90 deg. to the direction of movement of the subject, a compromise has to be reached when shooting at more conventional angles between a shutter speed high enough to arrest the forward movement of the subject and one low enough to blur the valve motion and wheels.
- To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
noun pans
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area. For instance, in the film Dances with Wolves, a pan of an uninhabited landscape contrasts the gruesome beginning footage that depicts the carnage of war.
pan⁸
- /pæn/ UK
- /pan/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /pæn/ Canada, US
- [peə̯n] ~ [pɛə̯n] Canada, US
- /pæːn/ Australia
- [peːn] Australia
- /pɛn/ New Zealand
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
noun
- Alternative form of paan.paan
pan⁹
- /pæn/ UK
- /pan/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /pæn/ Canada, US
- [peə̯n] ~ [pɛə̯n] Canada, US
- /pæːn/ Australia
- [peːn] Australia
- /pɛn/ New Zealand
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
Of unknown origin.
verb pans · panning · panned
- To join or fit together; to unite. 31 May 1884, Leeds Mercury Pan it down—press an article into its proper place
pan10
- /pæn/ UK
- /pan/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /pæn/ Canada, US
- [peə̯n] ~ [pɛə̯n] Canada, US
- /pæːn/ Australia
- [peːn] Australia
- /pɛn/ New Zealand
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
From Old English. See pane.
noun pans
- A part; a portion.
- The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
pan11
- /pæn/ UK
- /pan/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /pæn/ Canada, US
- [peə̯n] ~ [pɛə̯n] Canada, US
- /pæːn/ Australia
- [peːn] Australia
- /pɛn/ New Zealand
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
Clipping of pansexual or panromantic.
adjective
- Pansexual or panromantic. When she publicly acknowledged that she is pan, it educated citizens near and far on what that sexuality meant and the importance of being proud of who you are.
pan12
- /pæn/ UK
- /pan/ British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales
- /pæn/ Canada, US
- [peə̯n] ~ [pɛə̯n] Canada, US
- /pæːn/ Australia
- [peːn] Australia
- /pɛn/ New Zealand
Sounds like panne · Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
Clipping of pantograph.
noun pans
- Clipping of pantograph.pantograph
