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 have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
Dave Barry
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.
Shane West
I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.
Rupert Grint
I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.
Rupert Grint
Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.
Rupert Grint
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 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
A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, "Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza." I was like, "Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!"
Zac Efron
I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
Roger Daltrey
I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic.
Will Friedle
We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
Nikki Sixx
We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.
Jimmy Fallon
If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
Jimmy Fallon
The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.
Jimmy Fallon
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
Nathan Lane
Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
Ville Valo
I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
Ville Valo
I've always been a huge reggae fan.
Ville Valo
She knows I'm her biggest fan, I cheer for her louder than anybody.
Nick Lachey
I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
Loretta Lynn
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
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
Wilt Chamberlain
George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
Tom Waits
I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.
Louie Anderson
Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.
Don Shula
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'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
Ice T
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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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