pan

Definitions

• A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
• The contents of such a receptacle.
• A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
• (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
• A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
• (geography) An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
• (geology) : a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
• (geology) : a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
• Strong adverse criticism.
• A loaf of bread.
• (obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
• (slang) A human face, a mug.
• (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
• A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
• The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
• The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
• (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect
• (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.