fan

«fan» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who likes a sport, team, singer, book or hobby… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fan, fans); verb (fan, fans, fanned, fanning)

meaning for a pupil

1) A fan is a person who likes a sport, team, singer, book or hobby very much. tree →

2) A fan is a machine with spinning blades that moves air to cool you down. tree →

3) A fan is a flat folding object you wave in front of your face to cool yourself. tree →

4) To fan means to move air towards something, or to spread out in a fan shape: fan out. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: football fans, a fan club, a ceiling fan. In science, a fan does not make the air colder; it moves air over your skin so sweat evaporates faster and you feel cooler. In safety: keep fingers away from fan blades, and never fan a fire because more air makes it burn more. Phrases: a big fan of, fan club, fan mail, ceiling fan, fan out.

examples

• I am a big fan of that football team. tree →
• Turn on the fan, it is hot. tree →
• The fans cheered when we scored. tree →
• She waved a paper fan. tree →
• The ceiling fan spins slowly. tree →
• Keep your fingers away from the fan. tree →
• The search team fanned out across the field. tree →
• The author got lots of fan mail. tree →
• The old man now stood up and opened his fan and began to dance. tree →

note

Countable. «Fan» for a supporter comes from «fanatic». Science trap: a fan cools people, not rooms; it does not lower the air temperature. «A fan of» = someone who likes.

In the corpora

• Sharing where a famous person lives is wrong; being a fan gives nobody that right.
• Until the film makers announce it, who plays James Bond is only guessing by fans and betting sites.
• The Grammy Awards are voted on by members of the Recording Academy, people who work in music, not by fans.
• Pop and rock concerts are loud and crowded; big festivals run for several days with many stages, and many fans wear earplugs.
• Bees carry it home, pass it from bee to bee and fan it with their wings until most of the water is gone.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fan» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.