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fan 1 Noun 1. any device for creating a current of air, esp. a rotating machine of blades attached to a central hub 2. a hand-held object, usually made of paper, which creates a draught of cool air when waved 3. something shaped like such a fan, such as the tail of certain birds Verb [fanning, fanned] 1. to create a draught of air in the direction of someone or something 2. fan out to spread out in the shape of a fan: the troops fanned out along the beach [Latin vannus] fan 2 Noun a person who admires or is enthusiastic about a pop star, actor, sport, or hobby: he was a big fan of Woody Allen [from fanatic]
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fan 1 verb 3. stimulate, increase, excite, provoke, arouse, rouse, stir up, work up, agitate, whip up, add fuel to the flames, impassion, enkindle fan 2 Translations (ELEC) → ventilador m; (person) → aficionado/a; fan out vi → desplegarse (Sport) → supporter m/f fan out vi → se déployer (en éventail) (object) (folding) → Fächer m: (Elec) → Ventilator m vt → fächeln; (fire) → anfachen; (quarrel) → schüren fan out fan vi → ausschwärmen; (unfurl) → sich fächerförmig ausbreiten (machine) → ventilatore m; (person) → ammiratore/trice; (SPORT) → tifoso/a vt → far vento a [+ fire, quarrel]; alimentare fan out vi → spargersi (a ventaglio) |
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A fairer chance of sending Launce for the fan could not possibly have offered itself. Pontellier reached over for a palm-leaf fan that lay on the porch and began to fan herself, while Robert sent between his lips light puffs from his cigarette. "And if I could have mine," retorted the Heathen in His Blindness, bitterly malevolent but oleaginuously suave, "I'd fan all yours out of the universe. |
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