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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAN (See also:common in various forms to many See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Ger. Pfanne; it is generally taken to be an See also:early See also:adaptation in a shortened See also:form of See also:Lat. See also:patina, shallow bowl or dish, from patere, to See also:lie open)  , a See also:term applied to various sorts of open, See also:flat, shallow vessels . Its application has been greatly extended by See also:analogy, e.g. to the upper See also:part of the See also:skull; to variously shaped See also:objects capable of retaining substances, such as that part of the See also:lock in See also:early firearms which held the priming (whence the expression " flash in the See also:pan," for a premature and futile effort); or the circular See also:metal dish in which See also:gold is separated from See also:gravel, See also:earth, &c., by shaking or washing (whence the phrase " to pan out," to obtain a See also:good result) . Small See also:ice-floes are also called " pans," and the name is given to a hard substratum of See also:soil which acts as a See also:floor to the See also:surface soil and is usually impervious to See also:water .

End of Article: PAN (common in various forms to many Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Pfanne; it is generally taken to be an early adaptation in a shortened form of Lat. patina, shallow bowl or dish, from patere, to lie open)
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