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fan¹ I. substantiv

1. evantai, apărătoare (de muşte).

2. ventilator.

3. (agr.) vânturătoare.

4. aripă (a unei mori de vânt, de elice etc.); aripă sau coadă de pasăre.

5. (fig.) (to) îndemn, imbold (la, să).

fan¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a face vânt (cuiva).

2. (agr.)a vântura.

3. a aţâţa (focul), a sufla în.

4. (fig.) a aţâţa, a stârni, a aprinde;

(fig.) to fan the passions to the flame a aprinde pasiunile;

to fan the cold war a aţâţa războiul rece.

5. (fam.) a cerceta, a căuta.

6. (amer. fam.) a percheziţiona, a căuta (asupra cuiva) arme sau obiecte de furat.

7. a îndepărta (praful etc.) cu evantaiul.

fan¹ II. verb B. reflexiv

a-şi face vânt (cu evantaiul).

fan¹ II. verb C. intranzitiv

1. a face vânt (cu evantaiul); a răcori.

2. (şi to fan out) a se întinde în formă de evantai.

3. (poetic) a adia, a sufla (lin).

fan² substantiv

(fam.) om pasionat după cinema, sport etc., amator entuziast; microbist.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

My aunt retired behind the round green fan of former days, which was screwed on the back of a chair, and occasionally wiped her eyes, for about a quarter of an hour.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"Laurie, I want you to do me a favor, will you?" said Meg, as he stood fanning her when her breath gave out, which it did very soon though she would not own why.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

When she comes to her mother's age, said Mrs. Markleham, with a flourish of her fan, then it'll be another thing.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

My dear sir, returned Mrs. Markleham, shaking her head and her fan, you little know my poor Jack Maldon when you ask that question.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Ah! amiable indeed!” Here she left off, to kiss her fan again, and shake it at the Doctor, who was looking at us in a state of placid satisfaction.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And having, I suppose, carried her point, she tapped the Doctor's hand several times with her fan (which she kissed first), and returned triumphantly to her former station.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“But I DO mind,” said the Old Soldier, laying her fan upon his lips.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Markleham was so overcome by this generous speech—which, I need not say, she had not at all expected or led up to—that she could only tell the Doctor it was like himself, and go several times through that operation of kissing the sticks of her fan, and then tapping his hand with it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

When all these tasks were performed to her satisfaction, she took off the gloves and apron, folded them up, put them in the particular corner of the press from which they had been taken, brought out her work-box to her own table in the open window, and sat down, with the green fan between her and the light, to work.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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