Word of the Day: Pan
A pan is used for cooking. This is a pan:
- You can use a frying pan for making many things such as eggs, bacon, fish, or grilled cheese sandwiches.
- I used a pan last night to make some fried rice.
- Many people like to use nonstick pans because they’re easy to clean.
- It’s good to have an assortment of pots and pans in your kitchen if you like to cook.
But there are other types of pans:
- If you change the oil in your car, you need an oil pan.
- When you clean your house and use a broom to sweep up dirt, you need a dust pan.
- A person who is sick in bed and can’t get up to go to the bathroom needs a bed pan.
It’s possible to use the word “pan” as a verb:
- When moving a video camera from left to right, you pan right.
- If you move the camera from right to left, you pan left. (Pan left. = Move the camera to your left.)
- A person who looks for gold in a river bed uses a pan.
- He’s panning for gold.
- To pan something is to criticize it and say it isn’t very good.
- The critics panned the most recent movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- If you open a restaurant that gets panned by the general public, you could go out of business.
Essential English Dictionary
Visit the Popular English Words Beginning with P page to see the list of all words starting with letter P. For seeing the HiCafe dictionary, visit the Popular English Words with Meaning page.
