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FAN
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
1
pts
Big
too short
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Super Big
too short
(min 4)
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FAN is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).
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noun
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
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An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- He didn't switch on the fan because the temperature was 15 degrees Celsius.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- A group of overlapping cards exposed in various patience games.
- A section of a tree having a finite number of branches.
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A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- I am a big fan of libraries.
- I am a big fan of cricket.
- datedA unit of length, equivalent to 0.1 tsun (0.01 chek), or 0.00371475 metres.
verb
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transitiveTo blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind.
- transitiveTo slap (a behind, especially).
- intransitiveTo move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
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transitiveTo dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- I attempted to fan the disagreeable odour out of the room.
- transitiveTo perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- figurativelyTo invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To winnow grain.
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transitiveTo apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- Fanning the brakes results in the gradual depletion of the pressure in the cars' brake reservoirs, which can eventually cause a loss of all braking.
- intransitiveTo strike out.
- transitiveTo strike out (a batter).
- intransitiveTo fail to properly shoot or pass the puck.