pan : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a receptacle fitted beneath the grate in which ashes collect and are removed
  

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• a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization.

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• noun cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
  pan.
  

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• noun pan for catching drippings under roasting meat
  drip pan.
  
• noun pan under a refrigerator for collecting liquid waste
  

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• noun pan for catching drippings under roasting meat
  drip pan.
  

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• a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.

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• noun a frying pan heated by electricity
  

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• a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun.

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• noun someone who enjoys transient success but then fails
  

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• the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.

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• noun a pan used for frying foods
  frypan; skillet.
  

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• an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat. vegetables, etc.

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• noun chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
  Pan.
  

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• the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of character, of a matter in dispute, etc. See Pan.

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• noun a Cantonese dish of chicken and sauteed vegetables
  

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• noun pan for cooking omelets
  omelet pan.
  

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• noun pan for cooking omelets
  omelet pan.
  

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• noun a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries
  April 14.
  

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• noun the administrative agency of the Organization of American States
  

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• noun the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
  gravy.
  

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• verb wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
  pan off; pan.
  

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• verb be a success
  
  • The idea panned out
• verb wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
  pan off; pan.
  

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• noun small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species
  pygmy chimpanzee; bonobo.
  

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• verb roast in a pan
  
  • pan-roast that meat

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• noun intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests
  chimp; chimpanzee.
  

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• noun long-haired chimpanzees of east-central Africa; closely related to the central chimpanzees
  eastern chimpanzee.
  

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• noun black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa; closely related to eastern chimpanzees
  central chimpanzee.
  

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• noun masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa; distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees; possibly a distinct species
  western chimpanzee.
  

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Pan-, Pan"ta-, Pan"to- (Also<

• Pan-
• Panta-
• Panto-

)

Etymology

Gr. , m., ,neut., gen. , all.

Definitions

1. Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.

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Pan`-A*mer"i*can adjective

Etymology

See Pan-.

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

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Pan`-An"gli*can adjective

Etymology

Pan- + Anglican.

Definitions

1. (Eccl.) Belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.

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• verb broil in a pan
  

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• verb fry in a pan
  
  • pan-fry the dumplings

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• adjective of or relating to all the Greeks
  Panhellenic.
  
  • the Olympic Games were a Panhellenic celebration

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• noun a pan for cooking patties or pasties
  

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• noun a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up
  
• noun the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up
  

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• noun a flat collar with rounded ends that meet in front
  

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• . (a) A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun. (b) pl. Salt works.

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Shwan"-pan noun

Definitions

1. See Schwan-pan.

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• noun a saucepan used for stewing
  stewpan.
  

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• noun a city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business
  

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• to fail of success. Colloq. See under Flash, a burst of light.

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• to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical.

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• (Technol.), a kind of large closed metallic retort used in sugar making for boiling down sirup. It is so connected with an exhausting apparatus that a partial vacuum is formed within. This allows the evaporation and concentration to take place at a lower atmospheric pressure and hence also at a lower temperature, which largely obviates the danger of burning the sugar, and shortens the process.

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• noun a long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed
  

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• a long-handled covered pan into which live coals are put, used for warming beds.

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