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# fan

noun (a fan, fans); verb (fan, fans, fanned, fanning)

«fan» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A fan is a person who likes a sport, team, singer, book or hobby very much. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#m1)
2. A fan is a machine with spinning blades that moves air to cool you down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#m2)
3. A fan is a flat folding object you wave in front of your face to cool yourself. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#m3)
4. To fan means to move air towards something, or to spread out in a fan shape: fan out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life: football fans, a fan club, a ceiling fan. In science, a fan does not make the air colder; it moves air over your skin so sweat evaporates faster and you feel cooler. In safety: keep fingers away from fan blades, and never fan a fire because more air makes it burn more. Phrases: a big fan of, fan club, fan mail, ceiling fan, fan out.

### Examples

- I am a big fan of that football team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x1)
- Turn on the fan, it is hot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x2)
- The fans cheered when we scored. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x3)
- She waved a paper fan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x4)
- The ceiling fan spins slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x5)
- Keep your fingers away from the fan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x6)
- The search team fanned out across the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x7)
- The author got lots of fan mail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x8)
- The old man now stood up and opened his fan and began to dance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/#x9)

### Note

Countable. «Fan» for a supporter comes from «fanatic». Science trap: a fan cools people, not rooms; it does not lower the air temperature. «A fan of» = someone who likes.

## In Jewish tradition

In these verses it means a tool for winnowing, which tosses grain in the air to blow the chaff away.

**Interpretation.** The prophets use winnowing as a picture of God scattering and sifting the people.

### Examples

- The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. (Prophets ISA.30.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fan/#x1)
- And I fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I bereave them of children, I destroy My people, since they return not from their ways. (Prophets JER.15.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fan/#x2)
- And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall fan her, and they shall empty her land; for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. (Prophets JER.51.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fan/#x3)

### Note

Countable. «Fan» for a supporter comes from «fanatic». Science trap: a fan cools people, not rooms; it does not lower the air temperature. «A fan of» = someone who likes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fan» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fan/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fan» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fan.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «fan» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fan/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fan» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fan.html) on Mova free.