Pan vs. Pun — What's the Difference?

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.

The pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language.

Criticize severely

A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

Wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold)

To make puns or a pun.

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

(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.

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

(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

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

A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

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

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A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.

To pound.

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

To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.

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

To persuade or affect by a pun.

Hardpan.

A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

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

A humorous play on words;

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

Make a play on words;

(Music) A steel drum.

(Slang) The face.

(Informal) Severe criticism, especially a negative review

Variant of paan.

A pivoting movement of a movie camera.

Peroxyacetyl nitrate

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

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

To cook (food) in a pan

(Informal) To criticize or review harshly.

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

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

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

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

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

The contents of such a receptacle.

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

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

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

An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially

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

A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.

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

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

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

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

Strong adverse criticism.

A loaf of bread.

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

(slang) A human face, a mug.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(musical instrument) steelpan

A part; a portion.

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

A leaf of gold or silver.

(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;