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saucepan vs. frying pan

saucepan
[saws-pan] / ˈsɔsˌpæn /

noun

  1. a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.

frying pan
Also fry-pan,

noun

frying pans plural

  1. a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.

idioms

  1. out of the frying pan into the fire, free of one predicament but immediately in a worse one.