Pan and Scale

Pan

Pan noun - The front part of the head.

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Scale and pan are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scale" instead a noun "Pan".

Nearby Word: panful

Scale noun - A device for measuring weight.

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Pan and scale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pan" instead a noun "Scale".

Nearby Words: scaled, scaling, scalable

old	old pan	old scale
good	good pan	good scale
full	full pan	full scale
long	long pan	long scale
Other adjectives: exact, similar, normal, usual, single, real, large, big, great, huge, wide, bigger.

Inverted in the "water on a grease fire" myth; at one point Adam and Jamie attempted to scale down the fireball by reducing the amounts of water and oil, as well as the size of the pan.

Source: Series / MythBusters
The final book of the Skylark Series had explosions on a pan-galactic scale.

Source: Weapon of Mass Destruction
In the midst of a new Ice Age, the Pan-Asian Coalition and the European Union wage a large-scale war over the world's few remaining natural resources.

Source: Grand Unified Timeline / The Twenty Second Century

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