What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Fanned vs Vanned - What's the difference?

fanned | vanned |

As verbs the difference between fanned and vanned

is that fanned is (fan) while vanned is (van).

fanned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fan)

    • 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

    * * ----

    vanned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (van)

    • van

    English

    Etymology 1

    Short for caravan.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (covered) vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
  • (British) A railway carriage.
  • (UK, dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
  • .
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , book 5, lines 588–590:
    • Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
  • * 1698 , Ned Ward, The London Spy
    • Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster
  • * 1965 , translated by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, '', book 4 ''Vir??a Parva , section 33, page 84:
    • Bh??ma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Kar?a, clad in armour, stand in the van . And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”
  • .
    • Derived terms
    * detector van * divvy van * driving van trailer * goods van * panel van * * white van man

    See also

    * lorry * transit (UK) * truck

    Verb

    (vann)
  • To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
  • * 1966 , United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce:
    • I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
  • * 1999 , Bonnie Bryant, Changing Leads , p. 53:
    • [They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.

    • Verb

    (vann)
  • (mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
    • (Raymond)

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) (lena) : compare (etyl) van and English (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
  • A wing with which the air is beaten.
  • * Milton
    • So Satan fell; and strait a fiery globe / Of Angels on full sail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy vans receiv'd him soft
  • * Dryden
    • He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans' in vain; / His ' vans no longer could his flight sustain.

    Anagrams

    * ----