cooking pan
- noun
- /ˈkʊkɪŋ pæn/
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sartén
- And here we have a cooking pan that Josh has incinerated with lasagna.
Examples
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To make the omelette, heat the oil in a large cooking pan before adding the eggs.
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But it was a different place; the positions of metal trays, huge cooking pans, and everything else on the floor down here were not the same. He told his family how he had to navigate a new course to find a way out at the giant angle of descent the floor was making, and in the midst of all this debris inside the ship he loved and was losing at that very moment.
Fiction book (1994) -
Let me carry the cooking pan, Mother.
Fiction book (2001) -
" He packed a blanket and a cooking pan.
Fiction book (1990) -
How about scissors and a cooking pan?
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Do you mind, could we go back to the scissors and the cooking pan?
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Martha covered a bolt of flowered cloth to protect it from the rain and set the cooking pans down beside it.
Fiction book (1990) -
She sautéed the vegetables in a non-stick cooking pan for the stir-fry.
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Before roasting, place the seasoned chicken in a deep cooking pan to catch the drippings.
Synonyms
268
1.0
A shallow wide container, usually metal, for cooking food
66
2.5
A shallow pan with a long handle for frying food
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1.0
A shallow pan with a long handle for cooking food in hot oil
18
2.0
A large pan with a round bottom used to fry and stir-fry food, often in Chinese cooking
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2.7
A flat hot metal surface used to cook food like pancakes or sandwiches
A flat metal or non-stick cooking dish with a handle used to cook food in hot oil
A pan with a built-in electric heater that cooks food without a stove
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cooking' (the process of preparing food) modifies 'pan' (a shallow vessel), yielding a pan used for cooking. This regular noun + noun/gerund compound follows common English patterns and equivalents exist in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun cooking pan comes from the simple picture of a shallow metal pan used for cooking over a fire or stove. That's why it means 'a wide, shallow metal pan for cooking on a stove'.