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")