Pan vs. Saucepan

Pan vs. Saucepan — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Pan and Saucepan

Pannoun

A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

Saucepannoun

A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.

Pannoun

The contents of such a receptacle.

Saucepannoun

a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling

Pannoun

A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.

Pannoun

(Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.

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Pannoun

A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.

Pannoun

(geography) a specific type of lake, natural depression or basin. They are sometimes associated with desert areas.

Pannoun

Strong adverse criticism.

Pannoun

A loaf of bread.

Pannoun

The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.

Pannoun

(slang) A human face, a mug.

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Pannoun

(roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.

Pannoun

A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.

Pannoun

The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.

Pannoun

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.

Pannoun

(figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect

Pannoun

(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

Pannoun

The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil; hardpan.

Pannoun

A part; a portion.

Pannoun

(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

Pannoun

A leaf of gold or silver.

Panverb

(transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).

Panverb

(transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.

Panverb

(intransitive) With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.

Panverb

To beat one's opposition convincingly.

Panverb

(informal) To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)

Panverb

(intransitive) Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally.

Panverb

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.

Panverb

(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.

Panverb

To join or fit together; to unite.

Panadjective

(informal) Pansexual.

Pannoun

cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel

Pannoun

(Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus

Pannoun

shallow container made of metal

Pannoun

chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids

Panverb

make a sweeping movement;

The camera panned across the room

Panverb

wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals

Panverb

express a totally negative opinion of;

The critics panned the performance