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    fan

    • IPA[fan]

    英式

    • n.
      an apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation；a small sail for keeping the head of a windmill towards the wind.
    • v.
      cool (someone or something) by waving an object to create a current of air；(of breath or a breeze) blow gently on

    • verb: fan, 3rd person present: fans, gerund or present participle: fanning, past tense: fanned, past participle: fanned

    • noun: fan, plural noun: fans

    • 釋義
    • 片語

    名詞

    • 1. an apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation a couple of ceiling fans, lazily turning the kitchen may need to be fitted with an extractor fan
    • ▪ a small sail for keeping the head of a windmill towards the wind.
    • 2. a handheld device, typically folding and shaped like a segment of a circle when spread out, that is waved so as to cool the person holding it the girls were giggling behind their fans
    • ▪ a thing resembling an open fan fan vaulting
    • ▪ a fan-shaped alluvial or talus deposit at the foot of a slope there are great waste fans at the foot of the Andes in the desert

    動詞

    • 1. cool (someone or something) by waving an object to create a current of air he fanned himself with his hat 同義詞 cool, air, aerate, blow, ventilate, ... 更多
    • ▪ (of breath or a breeze) blow gently on his breath fanned her skin as he leant towards her
    • ▪ brush or drive away with a waving movement a veil of smoke which she fanned away with a jewelled hand
    • ▪ swing unsuccessfully at the ball or puck he had fanned 37 times in 83 at-bats
    • ▪ strike out (a batter) Norris fanned nine batters with his screwball
    • 2. increase the strength of (a fire) by blowing on it or stirring up the air near it fanned by an easterly wind, the fire spread rapidly
    • ▪ cause (a belief or emotion) to become stronger or more widespread a fury fanned by press coverage 同義詞 intensify, increase, agitate, inflame, exacerbate, ... 更多
    • 3. disperse or radiate from a central point to cover a wide area the arriving passengers began to fan out through the town in search of lodgings 同義詞 spread, open, branch, stretch, outspread, ... 更多
    • ▪ spread out or cause to spread out into a semicircular shape a dress made of tiny pleats that fanned out as she walked a wind fanned her hair out behind her

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