Frances vs Fan - What's the difference?
frances | fan |
, feminine form of Francis.
* c.1590 William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost : Act III, Scene I:
* 1883 , Heart and Science , Chatto and Windus, page 227:
* 1961 , Owls Do Cry , ISBN 072510029X, page 97:
* 1967 , Eric A. Nordlinger, The Working-class Tories , page 236:
* 1998 , Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), page 2:
* 2013 , Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives (ISBN 1136277218), page 48:
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.
frances
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) Franceise, feminine form of Franceis, from .Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Armado . Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
- Costard''. O! marry me to one Frances : I smell some ''l'envoy , some goose, in this.
- "My name is Frances'. Don't call me Fanny!" "Why not?" "Because it's too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature - plump and fair, and playful and pretty! - - - Call me ' Frances - a man's name, with only the difference between an i and an e. No sentiment in it, hard, like me."
- My other sisters had interesting names. There was Francie, that was Frances , and though she wore slacks and my father seemed angry with her, I thought she was some relation to Saint Francis, who, I believed, kept animals in his pocket and took them out and licked them, the way Francie licked a blackball or acid drop, for pure love.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
(head)- The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances ’.
- Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."
- Was it the end of the long conflict between the two Frances ? Yes and no.
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.