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

1. noun. An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
5. noun. Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.
6. noun. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. A quintain; -- from its form.
9. noun. To move as with a fan.
10. noun. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.
11. noun. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
12. noun. To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.
13. noun. To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.
14. noun. a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
15. noun. an ardent follower and admirer

    Synonyms: buff, devotee, lover

16. noun. an enthusiastic devotee of sports

    Synonyms: rooter

17. verb. make (an emotion) fiercer

    "fan hatred"

18. verb. strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
19. verb. separate the chaff from by using air currents

    "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field"

    Synonyms: winnow

20. verb. agitate the air

Synonyms

buff, devotee, lover, rooter, winnow

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fan:

naf

Common word forms

fans, fanal, fanes, fanned, fanner, fanning

Words from these letters

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