Fanned vs Fanne - What's the difference?
fanned | fanne |
(fan)
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.
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A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
* 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
To slap (a behind, especially).
* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 148:
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To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
An admirer or aficionado, especially of a sport or performer; someone who is fond of something or someone; an admirer.
(dated, fandom) A female science fiction fan.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1944
, author = John Bristol Speer
, title = Fancyclopedia
, url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/f1.html
, section = Fannes
, page = 31
, passage = Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1951
, month = May
, day = 21
, author = Winthrop Sargeant
, magazine= Life
, title = Through the Interstellar Looking Glass
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=fVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA127
, volume =
, issue =
, page = 127
, issn = 0024-3019
, passage = A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne' left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference.
Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen ... many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and ' fenne after all. }}* {{quote-book
, year = 1959
, author = & Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon)
, title = The BNF of Iz
, chapter = The Cyclone
, url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/BNF_of_IZ/BNF_of_IZ-01.html
, passage = Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne , who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.
}}
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As a verb fanned
is (fan).As a noun fanne is
(dated|fandom) a female science fiction fan.fanned
English
Verb
(head)fan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* ceiling fan * cooling fan * desk fan * exhaust fan * extractor fan * fan belt * fan dance * fan death * hit the fan * pedestal fan * wall fanVerb
(fann)- We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind. .
- 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.
Derived terms
* fannerEtymology 2
Shortened from (fanatic).Noun
(en-noun)- I am a big fan of libraries.
See also
* fanneAnagrams
* * ----fanne
English
Noun
(en-noun)Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen ... many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and ' fenne after all. }}