a metal container used for cooking food in

heat the olive oil in a heavy pan

a hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated

a hard stratum of compacted soil

heavy spikes can be useful in breaking a surface pan in grassland

a person's face

criticize severely

the movie was panned by the critics

wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold)

the old-timers panned gold

prospectors panned for gold in the Yukon

swing (a video or film camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject

he was panning the camera over everything in sight

a panning movement

that slow pan over London

betel leaves prepared and used as a stimulant

a man sold paan outside the house

he always rolled his own paans

an international radio distress signal, of less urgency than a mayday signal

a god of flocks and herds, typically represented with the horns, ears, and legs of a goat on a man's body. His sudden appearance was supposed to cause terror similar to that of a frightened and stampeding herd, and the word panic is derived from his name