Meaning of “pan” in the English Dictionary

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pannoun

uk ​ /pæn/ us ​ /pæn/

pan noun (CONTAINER)

B1 [ C ] a metal container that is round and often has a long handle and a lid, used for cooking things on top of a cooker:

Heat the milk in a small pan.
This dishwasher even washes pots and pans (= different types of pan).

› [ C ] US UK tin a metal container without a lid used for cooking food in the oven:

Put both cake pans in the oven for half an hour.

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pan noun (BETEL LEAF)

› [ U ] →  paan

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Idiom(s)

go down the pan

panverb

uk ​ /pæn/ us ​ /pæn/ -nn-

Phrasal verb(s)

pan out

pan-prefix

uk ​ /pæn-/ us ​ /pæn-/

› including or relating to all the places or people in a particular group:

a pan-American conference
a pan-European summit
the Pan-African Congress

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(Definition of “pan” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

"pan" in American English

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pannoun [ C ]

us ​ /pæn/

pan noun [ C ] (CONTAINER)

› any of various types of metal containers, usually not deep, used for cooking food:

a frying pan
Louise moved around some pots and pans on the stove.

panverb

us ​ /pæn/ -nn-

pan verb (CRITICIZE)

› [ T ] infml to severely criticize something:

Critics panned the concert.

pan verb (MOVE SLOWLY)

› [ I ] (of a movie camera) to move gradually in one direction:

Opening scenes panned the crowded, cluttered street.

Phrasal verb(s)

pan out

(Definition of “pan” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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