Decrease and Pan

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

pan

Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
- synonyms: cooking pan
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)
- synonyms: goat god
Shallow container made of metal.
Chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids.
- synonyms: genus Pan

Make a sweeping movement.
- usage: "The camera panned across the room"
Wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals.
- synonyms: pan out, pan off
Express a totally negative opinion of.
- usage: "The critics panned the performance"
- synonyms: tear apart, trash

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

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Pan is either masculine or feminine given name