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
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens
I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.
Shane West
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
Dave Barry
We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
Nikki Sixx
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
She knows I'm her biggest fan, I cheer for her louder than anybody.
Nick Lachey
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Marge Piercy
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
John Irving
Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.
Don Shula
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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