pan-(word root) allExamples of words with the root pan-: panaceaAbused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary EmbreePan (p?n)n. Greek Mythology The god of woods, fields, and flocks, having a human torso and head with a goat’s legs, horns, and ears.[Middle English, from Latin P?n, from Greek.]PANn. peroxyacetyl nitratepan 1 (p?n)n.1. A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes.2. A vessel similar in form to a pan, especially:a. An open metal dish used to separate gold, other precious metals, or gemstones from gravel or waste by washing.b. Either of the receptacles on a balance or pair of scales.c. A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.3. a. A basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water.b. A natural or artificial basin used to obtain salt by evaporating brine.c. Hardpan.4. A freely floating piece of ice that has broken off a larger floe.5. The small cavity in the lock of a flintlock used to hold powder.6. Music A steel drum.7. Slang The face.8. Informal Severe criticism, especially a negative review: gave the film a pan.v. panned, pan·ning, pans v.tr.1. To wash (gravel, for example) in a pan to separate out gold, other precious metals, or gemstones.2. To cook (food) in a pan: panned the fish right after catching it.3. Informal To criticize or review harshly.v.intr.1. To wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan.2. To yield gold as a result of washing in a pan.Phrasal Verb: pan out To turn out well; be successful: “If I don’t pan out as an actor I can still go back to school” (Saul Bellow).[Middle English, from Old English panne, from West Germanic *panna, probably from Vulgar Latin *patna, from Latin patina, shallow pan, platter, from Greek patan?; see pet?- in Indo-European roots.]pan 2 (pän)n. Variant of paan.pan 3 (p?n)v. panned, pan·ning, pans v.intr. To pivot a movie camera along a horizontal plane in order to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.v.tr. To pivot (a movie camera) in a specified direction.n. A pivoting movement of a movie camera.[Short for panorama or panoramic.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.pan (pæn) n1. (Cookery) a. a wide metal vessel used in cookingb. (in combination): saucepan. 2. Also called: panful the amount such a vessel will hold3. any of various similar vessels used esp in industry, as for boiling liquids4. (Mining & Quarrying) a dish used by prospectors, esp gold prospectors, for separating a valuable mineral from the gravel or earth containing it by washing and agitating5. (Chemistry) either of the two dishlike receptacles on a balance6. Also called: lavatory pan Brit the bowl of a lavatory7. (Physical Geography) a. a natural or artificial depression in the ground where salt can be obtained by the evaporation of brineb. a natural depression containing water or mud8. (Instruments) Caribbean the indented top from an oil drum used as the treble drum in a steel band9. (Physical Geography) See hardpan, brainpan10. (Physical Geography) a small ice floe11. a slang word for face1a12. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a small cavity containing priming powder in the locks of old guns13. (Geological Science) a hard substratum of soil14. (Cookery) short for pan loafvb, pans, panning or panned15. (Mining & Quarrying) (when: tr, often foll by off or out) to wash (gravel) in a pan to separate particles of (valuable minerals) from it16. (Mining & Quarrying) (often foll by: out) (of gravel) to yield valuable minerals by this process17. (tr) informal to criticize harshly: the critics panned his new play. [Old English panne; related to Old Saxon, Old Norse panna, Old High German pfanna]pan (pæn) vb, pans, panning or panned (Film) to move (a film camera) or (of a film camera) to be moved so as to follow a moving object or obtain a panoramic effectn (Film) a. the act of panningb. (as modifier): a pan shot. [C20: shortened from panoramic]pan (pæn) or paann1. (Plants) the leaf of the betel tree2. (Plants) a preparation of this leaf which is chewed, together with betel nuts and lime, in India and the East Indies[C17: from Hindi, from Sanskrit parna feather, wing, leaf]Pan (pæn) n (Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth the god of fields, woods, shepherds, and flocks, represented as a man with a goat’s legs, horns, and ears. Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014pan1 (pæn) n., v. panned, pan?ning. n. 1. a broad, usu. shallow, metal container, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc. 2. any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance. 3. the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful. 4. a container in which gold or other valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water. 5. a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay. 6. a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts. 7. (in old guns) the hollow part of the lock, holding the priming. 8. Informal. an unfavorable review or critique. 9. Slang. the face. v.t. 10. Informal. to criticize harshly, as in a review. 11. to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate gold or other valuable metal. 12. to cook in a pan. v.i. 13. to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like. 14. to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan. 15. pan out, Informal. to have an outcome, esp. a successful one. [before 900; Middle English, Old English panne, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon panna, Old High German pfanna] pan?ner, n. pan2 (p?n) n. 1. the leaf of the betel. 2. a substance, esp. betel nut or a betel-nut mixture, used for chewing. [1610?20;