(pan) noun
1. A wide, shallow vessel, usually metallic or earthen, for domestic use, as in holding liquids or in cooking.
2. A vessel, either open or closed, for boiling and evaporating.
3. A natural or artificial depression in the earth for evaporating brine.
4. A circular sheet–iron dish with sloping sides, in which gold is separated.
5. The powder cavity of a flintlock.
6. The skull; brainpan.
7. Any natural depression in the earth containing water or mud.
8. Hardpan.
9. Either of the two receptacles on a pair of scales or a balance.
—v. panned, pan·ning v.t.
1. To separate (gold) by washing gold–bearing earth in a pan.
2. To wash (earth, gravel, etc.) for this purpose.
3. To cook and serve in a pan.
4. Colloq. To criticize severely.
5. Colloq. To obtain; secure.
—v.i.
6. To search for gold by washing earth, gravel, etc., in a pan.
7. To yield gold, as earth.
—to pan out U.S. To result or turn out; transpire. [OE panne,? <LL panna <L patina a pan or dish <patere stand open]

(pan) noun
1. The leaf of the climbing pepper (Piper betle) used with the nuts of the betel palm as a masticatory in the East Indies.
2. The masticatory obtained from this leaf. [<Hind. pān a betel leaf <Skt. paṛna a feather, a leaf]

(pan) v.t. panned, pan·ning
To move (a motion–picture or television camera) across a scene in order to secure a panoramic effect. [<PANORAMA]

(pan)
In Greek mythology, a horned, goat–footed god of forests, flocks, and shepherds: identified with the Roman Faunus.

1. All; every; the whole: panchromatic.
2. Comprising, including, or applying to all: usually capitalized when preceding proper nouns or adjectives, as in: