Pan

Pan (noun) refers to a shallow, typically circular cooking vessel with a flat bottom used for frying or sautéing. It may also denote a broadly defined audience or region in classical myth, but in everyday use it most often names the cooking utensil. In specialized contexts it can mean the act of pan-and-zoom or disaster pan in film editing. Overall, it conveys a domestic, culinary object or a metaphorical range of coverage.