ENGLISH: pan - CREOLE: bonm



Overview of noun pan



The noun pan has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (11) pan, cooking pan -- (cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel)

2. Pan, goat god -- ((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)

3. pan -- (shallow container made of metal)

4. Pan, genus Pan -- (chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids)



Overview of verb pan



The verb pan has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (1) pan -- (make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room")

2. (1) pan, pan out, pan off -- (wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals)

3. pan, tear apart, trash -- (express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance")

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