pan
/pæn/ noun A2- 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.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- Strong adverse criticism.
Plural pans
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera--the Panther--and no man’s plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.
The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her.
'None the less,' said he, 'that is just what you will do if things pan out as I planned them.' I thought he was joking, but there was a powerful lot of meaning in the words, as I was soon to discover.
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