pan

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/pæn/

noun 17verb 10name 6adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

bottom, dry, easy, educated, false, greasy, hot, meaty

The greasy pan needed soaking overnight before I could wash it properly.

VERB + PAN

don't, flame, frying, handle, let, lift, part, place

Don't let the frying pan get too hot or the oil will start smoking.

PAN + NOUN

citizens, it's, oven, teachers

The teachers panned the new curriculum after seeing the poor test results.

PREP.

after, down, from, in, in, into, off, out

She poured the hot oil into the pan before adding the chopped onions.

ADV.

then

She panned across the room and then focused on the painting above the fireplace.

Definitions

name

Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.

An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.

name

A surname.

noun

Ellipsis of Peter Pan.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — express a totally negative opinion of

trash

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

out of the frying pan, into the fire

Move or get from an already bad situation to a worse one; end up in a worse situation when trying to escape from a bad or difficult one.

go down the pan

Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail; to degenerate rapidly.

The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.

Peter Pan syndrome

The supposed psychological phenomenon of immaturity among some men, who, like the fictional character, remain childish or childlike and fail to assume appropriate adult social roles and responsibilities.

The husband himself (called "he" to emphasize his role as Typical Male) comes across as a rather dense, naughty adolescent boy. He is clearly suffering from a terminal case of the

best thing since sliced pan

Alternative form of greatest thing since sliced bread.

down the pan

Synonym of down the toilet: wasted; irretrievable.

Example Bank

The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed.

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1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got

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"He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."

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We […] witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.

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Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh

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Later today in Finsbury Park, the cameras would spend hours panning across 35,000 festivalgoers in search of pickpockets, drunken brawlers, and other assorted agents of petty mischief.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, pan is marked as obsolete, slang, informal, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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