fan

1. (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.Examples: "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: […]"transitive

2. (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).Examples: "Part of it was that as much as I respected filial devotion and as much as I liked Sarah Barstow, it would have been a real satisfaction to put her across my knees and pull up her skirts and giver^([sic]) her a swell fanning, for not taking a look at that driver."transitive

3. (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.intransitive

4. (transitive) To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.Examples: "I attempted to fan the disagreeable odour out of the room."transitive

5. (firearms, transitive) To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.Examples: "To fan a single action revolver, hold down the trigger and strike the hammer repeatedly with a free hand."transitive

6. (figurative) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.Examples: "She comes, to fan my ardour, She kills me with her kisses."figuratively

1. (Hong Kong, dated) A unit of length, equivalent to 0.1 tsun (0.01 chek), or 0.00371475 metres.Examples: "1 chek (foot) = 14⅝ English inches divided into 10 tsün (inches) and each tsün into ten fan or tenths."Hong-Kongdated

1. (rail transport) The station code of Fanling in Hong Kong.

1. (brewing) Initialism of free amino nitrogen, amino acids available for yeast metabolism.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable