What's the difference between pan and skillet?

Pan


Definition:

  • (n.) A part; a portion.
  • (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  • (n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
  • (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
  • (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
  • (n.) 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, which he is said to have invented.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
  • (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
  • (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
  • (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
  • (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
  • (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
  • (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
  • (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
  • (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (2) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (3) But I feel I'm being true to myself in the way my career has panned out and I'm making the correct decision here.
  • (4) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (5) Effects of anti-human pan-T-specific monoclonal antibodies of the Second International Workshop on Human Leucocyte Differentiation Antigens were investigated in a number of lymphocyte functional tests.
  • (6) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
  • (7) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
  • (8) After Tuesday’s launch Pan told Xinhua the mission marked “a transition in China’s role ... from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements”.
  • (9) On days 70 and 94, both blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (sCR) values in the vehicle-treated rats were significantly higher than those in normal rats (without treatment with PAN and PS).
  • (10) The buccal mucosa was the most common site of occurrence; 98.3% of these individuals had oral habits, with smoking alone or smoking in combination with "pan" or "supari" chewing accounting for 74.9% of the habit forms.
  • (11) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
  • (12) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
  • (13) These are pan-European issues requiring pan-European responses.
  • (14) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
  • (15) Lipoproteins isolated by 'Pan B' antibody were comparable in size and shape to the lipoproteins in native plasma and to the lipoproteins isolated by polyclonal antibodies or ultracentrifugation.
  • (16) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (17) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
  • (18) A patient at the Wallington Family Practice in Surrey wrote: "Getting an appointment is like trying to pan for gold.
  • (19) In the normal bone marrow enriched by panning for CFU-E (8%) and depleted in progenitors of other lineages, blast cells showing characteristics similar to leukemic erythroid blasts were seen.
  • (20) Many other autoimmune diseases and autoantibodies were found in other family members not corresponding to HLA phenotypes, suggesting other non-HLA-linked genetic influences may be operative in predisposition to PAN.

Skillet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The skillet cake recipe comes from Annie Evans, Ann's "Welsh grandmother".
  • (2) To flipthe okonomiyaki, slide it out of the skillet on to a plate.
  • (3) In the next chapter – Welsh Heritage – Ann shares her recipe for skillet cakes, all while continuing to write like an over-excited Sunday school teacher ("How grateful I am for the courage and sacrifice of my grandparents!").
  • (4) Also, three foods were cooked in two iron skillets.
  • (5) Compounds mutagenic toward Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 in the presence of rat-liver homogenates (S9) were formed when fish flesh was fried at 199 degrees C. Three species of Hawaiian fish commonly consumed in Hawaii (skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis; yellowfin tuna, Neothunnus macropterus; and milkfish, Chanos chanos) were cooked in an electric skillet, along with samples of sole (Microstomus pacificus).
  • (6) Differences in volatile N-nitrosamines (NNAs) found in nitrite-cured bacon cooked in an electric skillet and a microwave oven were determined.
  • (7) They conjure up the skillet on the open fire; will‑o'‑the-wisps over a pitch black bog; the purple heath.
  • (8) If you need a bit more oil in your skillet, add it now, then slide the okonomiyaki back into the skillet.
  • (9) Perhaps because of differing amounts of previous use, cooking in different iron skillets resulted in some variation in the iron content of food.
  • (10) This finds expression in Graveola 's uniquely skewed indie aesthetic, using flutes, skillets and even musical Christmas cards to create a cosmopolitan sound.
  • (11) Pasta-makers, steamers, woks, griddle pans, copper pots, juicers, egg timers, skillets, multi-mixes, palette knives, frothers, basters and thermometers gathering dust in countless attics.
  • (12) You perch on stools round a central bar where cool, beautiful people knock up punchy cocktails and deliver food that’s perfect for the late-night reveller: sliders, delicate pizzette, perhaps the capital’s finest, fromage-iest macaroni cheese, oozing and bubbling in its cast iron skillet and laced with at least three different cheeses.
  • (13) In a dry skillet over medium heat, toast the sesame seeds, stirring nearly constantly, until golden, about 5 minutes.

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