Pin vs. Pan — What's the Difference?

A small, slender piece of metal used to fasten materials.

A cooking utensil with a flat bottom used for frying.

An essential tool in surgery, known as a surgical pin.

A metal container used in various culinary techniques.

A device used to temporarily position objects.

A tool for evaporating liquids or cooking in shallow fats.

A sharp object used in arts or crafts.

An item often made from durable materials like cast iron.

A fastening tool in jewelry, such as a brooch pin.

Essential cookware in kitchens for sautéing.

A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together, and can have three sorts of body: a shaft of a rigid inflexible material meant to be inserted in a slot, groove, or hole (as with pivots, hinges, and jigs); a shaft connected to a head and ending in a sharp tip meant to pierce one or more pieces of soft materials like cloth or paper (the straight or push pin); a single strip of a rigid but flexible material (e.g. a wire) whose length has been folded into parallel prongs in such fashion that the middle length of each curves towards the other so that, when anything is inserted between them, they act as a clamp (e.g.

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.

An identifying number allocated to an individual by a bank or other organization and used for validating electronic transactions.

Criticize severely

Attach or fasten with a pin or pins

Wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold)

Hold (someone) firmly in a specified position so they are unable to move

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

Hinder or prevent (a piece or pawn) from moving because of the danger to a more valuable piece standing behind it along the line of an attack

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

A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.

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

Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.

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

A whit; a jot

A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.

A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.

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

A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.

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

A cotter pin.

Hardpan.

The part of a key stem entering a lock.

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

(Music) One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.

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

(Nautical) A belaying pin.

(Music) A steel drum.

(Nautical) A thole pin.

(Slang) The face.

An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.

(Informal) Severe criticism, especially a negative review

A rolling pin.

Variant of paan.

One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.

A pivoting movement of a movie camera.

A flagstick.

Peroxyacetyl nitrate

See fall.

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

Pins(Informal) The legs

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

(Electronics) A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.

To cook (food) in a pan

Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.

(Informal) To criticize or review harshly.

Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.

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

Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.

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

To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.

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

To transfix.

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

To place in a position of trusting dependence

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

To hold fast; immobilize

The contents of such a receptacle.

(Sports) To win a fall from in wrestling.

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

To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.

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

Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.

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

A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially

A small nail with a head and a sharp point.

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

A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.

A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.

The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.

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

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.

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

A leg.

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

(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.

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

A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.

Strong adverse criticism.

(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.

A loaf of bread.

(chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.

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

(golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole

(slang) A human face, a mug.

(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)

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

(archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.

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

(obsolete) A mood, a state of being.

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

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.

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

Caligo.

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

A thing of small value; a trifle.

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

A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.

(musical instrument) steelpan

(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.

A part; a portion.

The tenon of a dovetail joint.

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

A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.

A leaf of gold or silver.

(informal) A pinball machine.

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

(locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.

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

(often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.

To turn out well; to be successful.

To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.

To beat one's opposition convincingly.

(wrestling) To pin down (someone).

To turn horizontally.

To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.

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 attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.

To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.

To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.

(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.

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To join or fit together; to unite.

(transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.

A part; a portion.

To peen.

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

To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.

A leaf of gold or silver.

To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See Betel.

A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.

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.

Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.

Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.

The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

That which resembles a pin in its form or use

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

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

The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.

The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.

Mood; humor.

A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.

Caligo. See Caligo.

To join or fit together; to unite.

An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.

To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.

The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.

To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.

A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment

To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; - usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

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.

A number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts

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.

Informal terms of the leg;

Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel

Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

(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

Cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown

Shallow container made of metal

Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green

Chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids

A small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things

Make a sweeping movement;

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

Wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals

A club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in groups as a target

Express a totally negative opinion of;

To hold fast or prevent from moving;

Attach or fasten with pins

Pierce with a pin;

Immobilize a piece

Common types include frying pans, sauté pans, and saucepans.

Generally, pins are cheaper than pans, with specialized pans like those made from copper being more expensive.

Proper care includes regular cleaning, seasoning (for cast iron), and avoiding overheating.

The sharp point can cause injury if not handled carefully.

Thicker pans distribute heat more evenly and are preferable for consistent cooking.

Yes, pins are often used as locating or alignment devices in mechanical settings.

Yes, such as safety pins for secure fastening and sewing pins for fabric work.

Pans are best for frying, searing, and shallow frying.

Pins can be made from metals like steel or brass, and sometimes plastics or wood.

With proper care, a good quality pan can last for many years, even decades.

Yes, eco-friendly options include biodegradable pins and recycled metal pans.

Yes, pins are used in crafts and jewelry making, as well as decorative brooches.

Yes, both can be recycled depending on the material they are made from.

Non-stick pans reduce the need for cooking oil and make cleaning easier.

Yes, certain types of pins are used in electronics for connectors and assemblies.