Dictionary Entry
fan
fan is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- 5noun
Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.
- 6noun
A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
A quintain; -- from its form.
- 9noun
To move as with a fan.
- 10noun
To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.
- 11noun
To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
- 12noun
To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.
- 13noun
To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.
- 14noun
a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- 15noun
an ardent follower and admirer
- 16noun
an enthusiastic devotee of sports
Synonyms
- 17verb
make (an emotion) fiercer
"fan hatred"
- 18verb
strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
- 19verb
separate the chaff from by using air currents
"She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field"
Synonyms
- 20verb
agitate the air
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