fan : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out
  alluvial cone.
  

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• noun a fan that blows heated air out of the attic of a building
  

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• noun a fan run by an electric motor
  blower.
  

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• noun a fan that moves air out of an enclosure
  

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• a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it.

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• noun a belt driven by the crankshaft that drives a fan that pulls air through the radiator
  

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• noun blade of a rotating fan
  

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• a wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner.

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• (Zoöl.), a mole cricket.

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• noun a solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness
  

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• noun large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
  Gleichenia flabellata; umbrella fern; Sticherus flabellatus.
  

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• noun a letter that is a piece of fan mail
  

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• (Arch.), a window over a door; so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways.

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• noun mail sent to public figures from their admirers
  
  • he hired someone to answer his fan mail

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• verb move outward
  spread; diffuse; spread out.
  
  • The soldiers fanned out

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• noun palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves
  

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Fan" palm`

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1. (Bot.) Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.

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• (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop, n., 1.

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• noun a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)
  fantan.
  

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• noun the carved tracery on fan vaulting
  

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• (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting.

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• noun an elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans
  

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• (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic.

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• the wheel of a fan blower.

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• . Same as Fan light (above).

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• noun an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine
  turbojet; fanjet; turbofan.
  
• noun a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust
  fanjet engine; fanjet; turbojet engine; turbofan engine; turbojet; turbofan.
  

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• adjective satellite having fan-shaped leaves
  fan-leafed.
  

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• adjective satellite having fan-shaped leaves
  fan-leafed.
  

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• adjective satellite shaped in the form of a fan
  

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Fan"-tailed` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.

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• a machine for separating seed from chaff, etc., by a blast of air; a fanner.

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• noun small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
  bamboo palm; fern rhapis; Rhapis excelsa.
  

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• noun someone who goes to see movies
  moviegoer.
  

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• noun corals having a treelike or fan-shaped horny skeleton
  

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Sea" fan"

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1. (Zoöl.) Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.

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• noun an enthusiastic devotee of sports
  rooter; fan.
  

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• to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

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• (Zoöl.), a common reticulated, fanshaped gorgonia (Gorgonia flabellum) native of Florida and the West Indies. When fresh the color is purple or yellow, or a mixture of the two.

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