A pan is a round metal container with a long handle, which is used for cooking things in, usually on top of a cooker or stove.

A pan is a shallow metal container used for baking foods.

If something such as a film or a book is panned by journalists, they say it is very bad.

If you pan a film or television camera or if it pans somewhere, it moves slowly round so that a wide area is filmed.

If someone pans for gold, they use a shallow metal container to try to find small pieces of gold from a river.