"flash pan" meaning in English

See flash pan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: flash pans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} flash pan (plural flash pans)
  1. (firearms) A small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns. Categories (topical): Firearms Synonyms: priming pan, flashpan Translations (small receptacle for priming powder): sankkipannu (Finnish), وزنه (vezne) (Ottoman Turkish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for flash pan meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flash pans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flash pan (plural flash pans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Firearms",
          "orig": "en:Firearms",
          "parents": [
            "Weapons",
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns."
      ],
      "id": "en-flash_pan-en-noun-neo9y2tx",
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "receptacle",
          "receptacle"
        ],
        [
          "priming powder",
          "priming powder"
        ],
        [
          "touch hole",
          "touch hole"
        ],
        [
          "muzzleloading",
          "muzzleloading"
        ],
        [
          "gun",
          "gun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(firearms) A small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "priming pan"
        },
        {
          "word": "flashpan"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "firearms",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "small receptacle for priming powder",
          "word": "sankkipannu"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "vezne",
          "sense": "small receptacle for priming powder",
          "word": "وزنه"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flash pan"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flash pans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flash pan (plural flash pans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Firearms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "receptacle",
          "receptacle"
        ],
        [
          "priming powder",
          "priming powder"
        ],
        [
          "touch hole",
          "touch hole"
        ],
        [
          "muzzleloading",
          "muzzleloading"
        ],
        [
          "gun",
          "gun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(firearms) A small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "priming pan"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "firearms",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "flashpan"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small receptacle for priming powder",
      "word": "sankkipannu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "vezne",
      "sense": "small receptacle for priming powder",
      "word": "وزنه"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flash pan"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.