pan
/pæn/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun
Forms pans pen panning panned the Pan
- noun A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- noun The contents of such a receptacle.
- noun A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- noun (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- noun A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- noun A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- noun (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- noun (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- verb (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- verb (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- verb (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- verb (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- verb (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- verb (photography, intransitive) 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.
- verb (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- verb (sound engineering, transitive) 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.
- verb (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- noun A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- verb To join or fit together; to unite.
- noun A part; a portion.
Synonyms
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Etymology
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.
Clipping of panorama.
Of unknown origin.
From Old English. See pane.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A part; a portion.
- noun The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- verb To join or fit together; to unite. [Obs.] Halliwell.
- noun The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See .
Etymology [OE. See 2d Pane.]
Etymology [Cf. F. pan skirt, lappet, L. pannus a cloth, rag, W. panu to fur, to full.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “pan”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details