Fan vs. Pan — What's the Difference?

An apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation

A god of flocks and herds, typically represented with the horns, ears, and legs of a goat on a man's body. His sudden appearance was supposed to cause terror similar to that of a frightened and stampeding herd, and the word panic is derived from his name.

A handheld device, typically folding and shaped like a segment of a circle when spread out, that is waved so as to cool the person holding it

Criticize severely

A person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing

Wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold)

Cool (someone or something) by waving an object to create a current of air

Swing (a video or film camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject

Increase the strength of (a fire) by blowing on it or stirring up the air near it

A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes.

Disperse or radiate from a central point to cover a wide area

An open metal dish used to separate gold, other precious metals, or gemstones from gravel or waste by washing.

A machine using an electric motor to rotate thin, rigid vanes in order to move air, as for cooling.

Either of the receptacles on a balance or pair of scales.

A collapsible, usually wedge-shaped device made of a light material such as silk, paper, or plastic.

A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.

An implement or machine for winnowing.

A basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water.

Something resembling an open fan in shape

A natural or artificial basin used to obtain salt by evaporating brine.

An ardent devotee; an enthusiast.

Hardpan.

To move or cause a current of (air) with or as if with a fan.

A freely floating piece of ice that has broken off a larger floe.

To direct a current of air or a breeze upon, especially in order to cool

The small cavity in the lock of a flintlock used to hold powder.

To stir (something) up by or as if by fanning

(Music) A steel drum.

To open (something) out into the shape of a fan

(Slang) The face.

To fire (an automatic gun) in a continuous sweep by keeping one's finger on the trigger.

(Informal) Severe criticism, especially a negative review

To fire (a revolver) rapidly by chopping the hammer with the palm.

Variant of paan.

To winnow.

A pivoting movement of a movie camera.

(Baseball) To strike out (a batter).

Peroxyacetyl nitrate

To spread out like a fan

Greek Mythology The god of woods, fields, and flocks, having a human torso and head with a goat's legs, horns, and ears.

(Baseball) To strike out.

To wash (gravel, for example) in a pan to separate out gold, other precious metals, or gemstones.

A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.

To cook (food) in a pan

An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.

(Informal) To criticize or review harshly.

The action of fanning; agitation of the air.

To wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan.

Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.

To yield gold as a result of washing in a pan.

An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

To pivot a movie camera along a horizontal plane in order to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.

A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.

To pivot (a movie camera) in a specified direction.

(maths) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches

A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.

The contents of such a receptacle.

(transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.

A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.

(transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).

(Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.

To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.

A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.

(transitive) To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.

An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially

To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.

A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.

(metaphoric) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.

A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.

To winnow grain.

(South Africa) playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.

To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.

: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.

To strike out.

(geology) nodot=a: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.

To strike out (a batter).

Syn of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

Strong adverse criticism.

That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.

A loaf of bread.

A quintain; - from its form.

The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.

To move as with a fan.

(slang) A human face, a mug.

To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.

(roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.

To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.

A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.

To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.

(firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.

To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan excites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.

A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces

(figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.

An enthusiastic devotee of sports

(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

An ardent follower and admirer

(musical instrument) steelpan

Strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)

A part; a portion.

Make (an emotion) fiercer;

(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

Agitate the air

A leaf of gold or silver.

Separate from chaff;

(transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).

(transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)

To turn out well; to be successful.

To beat one's opposition convincingly.

To turn horizontally.

To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.

To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.

(audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.

To join or fit together; to unite.

(informal) Pansexual or panromantic.

A part; a portion.

The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

A leaf of gold or silver.

The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See Betel.

A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.

A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.

The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.

A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.

A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.

To join or fit together; to unite.

To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.

To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.

To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; - usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

To scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to keep the subject in view.

The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe (also called the pipes of Pan), which he is said to have invented.

Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel

(Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus

Shallow container made of metal

Chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids

Make a sweeping movement;

Wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals

Express a totally negative opinion of;