Definition of Fan

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Definition of Fan

Fan

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.

An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.

A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.

That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.

A quintain; -- from its form.

To move as with a fan.

To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.

To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.

To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.

To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.

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Fan Quotations

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
Dave Barry

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens

You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
Bo Jackson

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
Henry Rollins

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.
Jo Brand

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.
Elton John

We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
Nikki Sixx

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
Don Van Vliet

I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
Laura Bush

Fan Translations

fan in Dutch is aanwakkeren, aanvuren, aanzetten
fan in Italian is ventilatore, scompartimenti, ammiratore
fan in Norwegian is vifte, beundrer, kornrenser, rense
fan in Portuguese is ventilador
fan in Spanish is abanico, entusiasta

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