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ban | fan |

As a proper noun ban

is .

As a noun fan is

.

ban

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bannen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Verb

  • (obsolete) To summon; call out.
  • To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.
  • To curse; execrate.
  • * (Spenser)
  • * (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation.
  • * (Byron)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian
    • , title= Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
  • To curse; utter curses or maledictions.
    • Synonyms
    * forbid * prohibit * disallow

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • prohibition
  • * Milton
    • under ban to touch
  • A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
    • Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
  • The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
    • He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban.
    The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.
    ''France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated.
    The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.''
    The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban.
  • (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hecate's ban
  • A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
    • Related terms
    * black ban * total fire ban

    See also

    * banns

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (bani)
  • A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian (l)
  • A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian

    • Etymology 3

    From (Banburismus); coined by .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
    • Derived terms
    * deciban
    Synonyms
    * dit, hartley
    See also
    * bit, nat, qubit

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) (term) (compare Serbo-Croatian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

    • Anagrams

    * * * English terms with multiple etymologies English transitive verbs ----

    fan

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • An electrical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
  • 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.
  • * :
    • The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan .
  • * :
    • Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
    • Derived terms
    * ceiling fan * cooling fan * desk fan * exhaust fan * extractor fan * fan belt * fan dance * fan death * hit the fan * pedestal fan * wall fan

    Verb

    (fann)
  • To 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. .
  • * 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
    • Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking.
  • To slap (a behind, especially).
  • * 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 148:
  • *
  • To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
    • Derived terms
    * fanner

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from (fanatic).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An admirer or aficionado, especially of a sport or performer; someone who is fond of something or someone; an admirer.
    • I am a big fan of libraries.

    See also

    * fanne

    Anagrams

    * * ----