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pan   (TTS Sound)

The noun pan has 4 senses

• pan, cooking pan -- (cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel)


• Pan, goat god -- ((Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus)


• pan -- (shallow container made of metal)


• Pan, genus Pan -- (chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids)

The verb pan has 3 senses

• pan -- (make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room")


• pan, pan out, pan off -- (wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals)


• pan, tear apart, trash -- (express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance")