- a container, usually made of metal, with a handle or handles, used for cooking food in
- pots and pans
- a large stainless steel pan
- Heat a large non-stick sauté pan over a medium heat.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add the sugar.
- a nonstick pan
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chip
- fry
- frying
- …
- heat
- cover
- pots and pans
- the amount contained in a pan
- a pan of boiling water
- (North American English) (British English tin)a metal container used for cooking food in
- a cake pan
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatingb1- Turn the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 40 minutes.
- Put your turkey on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cake
- loaf
- pie
- …
- either of the dishes on a pair of scales that you put things into in order to weigh them
- (British English) the bowl of a toilet see also bedpan, dustpan, salt pan, skidpan, warming pan
Word Originnoun Old English panne, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch pan, German Pfanne, perhaps based on Latin patina ‘dish’.
Idioms
See pan in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya flash in the pan
- a sudden success that lasts only a short time and is not likely to be repeated
- He needed to prove that his success was not just a flash in the pan.
go down the pan
- (British English, informal) to fail completely
- My career was going down the pan.
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