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Pan
pan
- a metal container used for cooking food in
"heat the olive oil in a heavy pan"
saucepan frying pan pot casserole wok skillet bain-marie fish kettle pressure cooker poacher chafing dish- an amount of something contained in a pan
"a pan of hot water"
- a bowl fitted at either end of a pair of scales
"she sifted flour on to the wide brass pan of the scales"
- the bowl of a toilet
"peroxide is what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan"
- a large container used in a technical or manufacturing process for subjecting a material to heat or a mechanical or chemical process
- a steel drum
- a shallow bowl in which gold is separated from gravel and mud by agitation and washing
"he washed the gold-free surface gravel out over the rim of the pan"
- a part of the lock that held the priming in old types of gun
"prime the pan, pour the powder down the barrel, then ram in the cartridge's paper and ball"
- a hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated
- a hard stratum of compacted soil
"heavy spikes can be useful in breaking a surface pan in grassland"
- a person's face
- criticize severely
"the movie was panned by the critics"
- wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold)
"the old-timers panned gold"
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