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▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
▸ noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) The workhouse in St Pancras, London.
▸ noun:  A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
▸ noun:  The contents of such a receptacle.
▸ noun:  A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
▸ noun:  (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
▸ noun:  A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
▸ noun:  (geography, geology) An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
▸ noun:  A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
▸ noun:  (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
▸ noun:  (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
▸ noun:  (geology, obsolete South Africa) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
▸ noun:  Strong adverse criticism.
▸ noun:  (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
▸ noun:  A bedpan.
▸ noun:  (slang) A human face, a mug.
▸ noun:  (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
▸ noun:  A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
▸ noun:  (firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
▸ noun:  The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
▸ noun:  (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
▸ noun:  (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
▸ verb:  (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
▸ verb:  (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, of a camera, etc.) To turn horizontally.
▸ verb:  (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.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, imaging) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
▸ verb:  (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.
▸ noun:  A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
▸ verb:  To join or fit together; to unite.
▸ noun:  A part; a portion.
▸ noun:  (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
▸ noun:  A leaf of gold or silver.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Pansexual or panromantic.
▸ noun:  Ellipsis of Peter Pan. [A man who acts as a child and does not accept the responsibilities of adulthood.]
▸ noun:  (linguistics) Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian. [A proposed common ancestor to the group of Austronesian languages comprising Malayo-Polynesian and Formosan languages.]
▸ noun:  Acronym of primary account number.
▸ noun:  Acronym of personal area network. [A wireless communications network, intended for devices within a small room or cubicle.]
▸ noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyacrylonitrile. [(organic chemistry) Any polymer or copolymer of acrylonitrile; they are mostly resins that are used to make fibers for fabrics]
▸ noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate. [An urban air pollutant formed photochemically in the air as part of photochemical smog.]
▸ noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.
▸ noun:  Short for salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water. [Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.]
▸ noun:  (geology) Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans. [A distinct layer of soil that is largely impervious to water.]
▸ noun:  (music) Short for steelpan. [(music, countable) A percussion instrument consisting of a drum made of steel, originally from Trinidad.]
▸ noun:  Alternative form of paan [(India) A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.]
▸ noun:  (rail transport, informal) Short for pantograph. [A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid.]

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