Pan
Definition of Pan
| n. | 1. | A part; a portion. | | 2. | (Fort.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle. | | 3. | A leaf of gold or silver. | | v. t. & i. | 1. | To join or fit together; to unite. | | n. | 1. | The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See Betel. | | prop. n. | 1. | (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. | | n. | 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. | | 2. | (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum. | | 3. | The part of a flintlock which holds the priming. | | 4. | The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. | | 5. | (Carp.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge. | | 6. | The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard. | | 7. | A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.| Flash in the pan | | See under Flash. |
| | v. t. | 1. | (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. | | 2. | To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly. | | v. i. | 1. | (Mining) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; - usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly. | | 2. | To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. | | v. t. & i. | 1. | (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. |
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