bag vs pan

bag

verb
  • To criticise sarcastically. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To laugh uncontrollably. 

  • To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest. 

  • To steal. 

  • To put into a bag. 

  • To fit with a bag to collect urine. 

  • To hang like an empty bag. 

  • To drop away from the correct course. 

  • To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. 

  • To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. 

  • To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator. 

  • To forget, ignore, or get rid of. 

  • To furnish or load with a bag. 

noun
  • A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath. 

  • One's preference. 

  • A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags. 

  • A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods. 

  • The scrotum. 

  • A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated. 

  • £1000, a grand. 

  • A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance. 

  • An ugly woman. 

  • A fellow gay man. 

  • The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base. 

  • A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics. 

  • A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc. 

  • A large number or amount. 

  • First, second, or third base. 

  • A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig. 

  • A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds. 

  • The quantity of game bagged in a hunt. 

pan

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

  • To turn out well; to be successful. 

  • To join or fit together; to unite. 

  • 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 beat one's opposition convincingly. 

  • 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. 

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

  • To turn horizontally. 

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

  • A human face, a mug. 

  • A part; a portion. 

  • The part of a flintlock that holds the priming. 

  • Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa. 

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

  • Strong adverse criticism. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A leaf of gold or silver. 

  • A loaf of bread. 

  • A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin. 

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

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

  • A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat. 

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

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

  • The brain, seen as one's intellect. 

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

adj
  • Pansexual or panromantic. 

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