[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pan/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) / pan # pan noun (pan, pans); verb (pan, pans, panned, panning) «pan» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A pan is a metal pot for cooking food, often with a long handle, like a frying pan or saucepan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#m1) 2. A pan is also one of the two dishes of a balance scale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#m2) 3. A baking pan or tin holds cakes in the oven. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#m3) 4. To pan for gold is to wash river sand in a pan to find gold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#m4) 5. To pan a film is to say it is very bad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#m5) ### In the lessons In school maths: a kitchen thing counted; cakes or cookies baked in pans («per pan» is a group size); the two pans of a scale. In everyday life: frying eggs in a pan, washing pans after dinner. In history: gold rush miners panned for gold in California, Australia and New Zealand. Phrases: «frying pan», «saucepan», «out of the frying pan into the fire» (from bad to worse). ### Examples - Each pan holds 12 cookies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x1) - She bakes 3 pans of muffins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x2) - Put 2 weights on the left pan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x3) - How many pans are needed for 50 rolls? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x4) - Dad fried the eggs in a pan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x5) - Careful, the pan is very hot! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x6) - Miners panned for gold in the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x7) - Grease the cake pan before you pour in the mix. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x8) - Out of the frying-pan into the fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/#x9) ### Note Countable: «a pan». «Pot» is deeper; «pan» is often wider and flatter. Maths: often «per pan» — a group size, so total = pans × each. Trap: on a scale, both pans must weigh the same when it balances. Safety: turn pan handles away from the edge of the cooker. ## In Jewish tradition A vessel of the Tabernacle: the golden pan holding incense, the baking pan for meal-offerings, and fire-pans for coals. **Interpretation.** The golden pans of incense brought by the chieftains are read as their offerings at the altar's dedication. The fire-pans of Korah's men were hammered into a covering for the altar as a warning. ### Examples - one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; (Torah NUM.7.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pan/#x1) - And if thy offering be a meal-offering of the stewing-pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. (Torah LEV.2.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pan/#x2) - And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, (Torah NUM.16.39, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pan/#x3) - and the snuffers, and the basins, and the pans, and the fire-pans, of pure gold. (Writings 2CH.4.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pan/#x4) - And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. (Prophets 2SA.13.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pan/#x5) - and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. (Prophets 1SA.2.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pan/#x6) ### Note Countable: «a pan». «Pot» is deeper; «pan» is often wider and flatter. Maths: often «per pan» — a group size, so total = pans × each. Trap: on a scale, both pans must weigh the same when it balances. Safety: turn pan handles away from the edge of the cooker. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «pan» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pan/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«pan» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pan.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «pan» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pan/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«pan» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/pan.html) on Mova free.