pan

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   express a totally negative opinion of

   The critics panned the performance

2. 2
   verb

   make a sweeping movement

   The camera panned across the room

3. 3
   noun

   Strong adverse criticism.

   The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed.

4. 4
   noun

   A bedpan.

   1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the sheets! Unreal.

5. 5
   noun

   A human face, a mug.

   "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."

6. 6
   noun

   The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.

   Holonym: firearm

7. 7
   noun

   The brain, seen as one's intellect.

   14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Friar's Tale, Unto the devil rough and black of hue Give I thy body and my pan also."

8. 8
   noun

   Ellipsis of steelpan.

   The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members.

Etymology

Etymology tree Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor. Latin patina Late Latin pannabor. Proto-Germanic *pannǭ Proto-West Germanic *pannā Old English panne Middle English panne English pan From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ. Further origin uncertain. Alois Walde firstly suggests that it might be from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek. But the sound shifting from /patina/ → /patna/…