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Fan is a related term of nut.


As nouns the difference between fan and nut

is that fan is while nut is knot.

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

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    nut

    English

    (wikipedia nut)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hard-shelled seed.
  • There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
  • A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
  • * 1998 , Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[http://books.google.com/books?id=lPYWVti6GR0C&pg=PA95&dq=bolt+%22nut+into%22&hl=en&ei=FPAWTuXGOIm08QPkl5j8Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=bolt%20%22nut%20into%22&f=false]
  • As the bolt tightens into the nut', it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and '''nut''' by setting the ' nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
  • (slang) A crazy person.
  • He was driving his car like a nut .
  • (slang) The head.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter V , passage=Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.}}
  • (US, slang) Financial term for monthly expense to keep a venture running.
  • (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
  • * 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
  • My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut ,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
  • (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
  • (musical instruments, lutherie) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
  • En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
  • An extravagantly fashionable young man of the 1910s and 1920s.
  • * 1914 , (w), ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
  • ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut', are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a ' Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].
  • (vulgar, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.
  • I kicked him in the nuts .
  • (vulgar, slang) Semen, ejaculate.
  • An extreme enthusiast.
  • a fashion nut
    a gun nut
    a sailing nut
  • (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
  • * 2005 , Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88
  • When placing nuts', always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the ' nut can be wedged.
  • (poker, only in attributive use) Relating to the , the best possible hand on a given board.
  • a nut''' hand; a '''nut flush
  • The tumbler of a gunlock.
  • (Knight)
  • (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
  • Synonyms

    * (insane person) loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter * (the head) bonce, noodle (see further synonyms under head) * (a testicle) ball, bollock (taboo slang), nads

    Derived terms

    * coconut * groundnut * hard nut to crack * hazelnut * monkeynut * peanut * nutbeam * nutbag * nutcase * nutter * nutcracker * nutdriver * nutmeat * nutmeg * nut roast * nutshell * off one's nut * sweet as a nut * walnut

    Verb

    (nutt)
  • (UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
  • * 1999 , Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England
  • One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
  • (slang) To ejaculate (semen ).
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