Word Meaning

pans definition and meaning

n. A part; a portion.
n. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
n. A leaf of gold or silver.
v. t. & i. To join or fit together; to unite.
n. The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
n. The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
n. A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
n. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
n. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
n. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
n. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
n. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
n. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
v. t. To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
v. i. To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
v. i. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

Crossword clues for pans

- Broad shallow container without cover
- Cook’s utensil, rolling ...
- Cooking vessel
- Cooking vessel with a handle
- Critical review
- Criticise harshly
- Dis
- Forty winks
- Frying vessel
- Kitchen utensil
- Movie camera sweep
- Pot
- Review savagely
- Severely criticise skillet
- Shallow pot
- Sieve (for gold)
- Sift (for gold)
- Sift for (gold)
- Slate skillet
- Sweeping movement with skillet
- Swing movie camera in arc
- to criticize severely
- Toilet bowl
- Uncomplimentary review
- Weapon found up your sleeve
- Cooking pots
- Cooking vessels
- Cookware
- Gold-catching devices
- Kitchen utensils
- Kitchen vessels