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

(astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.

(OS grid ref SZ5088) A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England .

Ellipsis of Peter Pan.

A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

The contents of such a receptacle.

A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.

(Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.

A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.

(geography, geology) An expanse of level land located in a depression, which can refer to a pond or lake, a dry lake or playa, a temporary pond or lake in a playa, or a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.

(geology) Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.

Strong adverse criticism.

A loaf of bread.

A bedpan.

(slang) A human face, a mug.

(roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.

A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.

(firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.

(figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.

(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

(music) Short for steelpan.

A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.

Alternative form of paan

A part; a portion.

(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

A leaf of gold or silver.

(rail transport, informal) pantograph

(transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).

(transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)

(intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.

(transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.

(intransitive, of a camera, etc.) To turn horizontally.

(intransitive, photography) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.

(intransitive, imaging) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.

(audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.

To join or fit together; to unite.

(informal) Pansexual or panromantic.