pan

pan¹ [pæn] n

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1¦(for cooking)¦

2¦(for baking cakes etc)¦

3¦(open container)¦

4¦(toilet)¦

5 go down the pan

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[: Old English; Origin: panne]

1.) ¦(FOR COOKING)¦

a round metal container that you use for cooking, usually with one long handle and a lid

= ↑saucepan

▪ a frying pan

▪ pots and pans

▪ Cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling water.

2.) ¦(FOR BAKING CAKES ETC)¦

AmE a metal container for baking things in

British Equivalent: tin

▪ a cake pan

3.) ¦(OPEN CONTAINER)¦

AmE a wide, usually round, open container with low sides, used for holding liquids

4.) ¦(TOILET)¦

BrE the bowl of a toilet

5.) go down the pan

BrE informal to be wasted or become useless or ruined

▪ The business is rapidly going down the pan.

→↑warming pan

→a flash in the pan at ↑flash² (5)

pan ²

pan² v past tense and past participle panned present participle panning

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1¦(criticize)¦

2¦(camera)¦

3¦(gold)¦

Phrasal verbs

　pan out

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[Sense: 1,3; Date: 1800-1900; Origin: PAN¹]

[Sense: 2; Date: 1900-2000; Origin: panorama]

1.) ¦(CRITICIZE)¦ [T] informal

to strongly criticize a film, play etc in a newspaper or on television or radio

▪ The movie was panned by the critics.

2.) ¦(CAMERA)¦

a) [I always + adverb/preposition]

if a film or television camera pans in a particular direction, it moves in that direction and follows the thing that is being filmed

▪ The camera panned slowly across the crowd.

b) [I and T]

to move a camera in this way

3.) ¦(GOLD)¦ [I and T]

to wash soil in a metal container in order to separate gold from other substances

pan for

▪ panning for gold in Alaska

pan out phr v

to happen or develop in a particular way

▪ We'll have to see how things pan out.