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单词 fan
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fannoun [ C ]

uk/fæn/us/fæn/

fan noun [ C ] (PERSON)

A2 someone who admires and supports a person, sport, sports team, etc.:

More than 15,000 Liverpool fans attended Saturday's game.
He's a great fan of country music.
I'm pleased to meet you - I'm a big fan of your work.

More examples

  • I've never been a huge fan of opera.
  • His most devoted fans think of Morrissey as a sort of god.
  • The victorious team were loudly cheered by their fans.
  • He's an avid football fan.
  • As we came into the arena, we were jostled by fans pushing their way towards the stage.

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Admirers

  • admirer
  • devotee
  • fan club
  • fanboy
  • fandom
  • fangirl
  • fans' favourite
  • fansite
  • flatterer
  • follower
  • following
  • hanger-on
  • party faithful
  • secret admirer
  • stan
  • worshipper

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Audiences and spectators
Enthusiasts

fan noun [ C ] (OBJECT/PIECE OF EQUIPMENT)

B1 an electric device with blades that turn quickly, used to move the air around:

There was no air conditioning, just a ceiling fan turning slowly.

an object made of folded paper or other material that you wave with your hand in order to move the air around :

Fans are still used by many Spanish women during their hot summer as a means of keeping cool.

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Machines - general words

  • 3-D printer
  • automatic
  • backhoe
  • bot
  • cash machine
  • cement mixer
  • cloud chamber
  • compactor
  • contraption
  • cotton gin
  • crank
  • derrick
  • gadget
  • humidifier
  • lift
  • Mk
  • rotor
  • selector
  • sensitive
  • vending machine

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fanverb [ T ]

uk/fæn/us/fæn/-nn-

fan verb [ T ] (AIR)

to wave a fan, or something that acts as a fan, in front of your face:

It was so hot in the car that I tried to fan myself with the road map.
She sat down and began fanning her face.

to blow air at a fire to make it burn more strongly

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Shaking, swinging and vibrating

  • agitate
  • brandish
  • churn
  • flourish
  • fluff sth up
  • jitter
  • joggle
  • resonate
  • reverberate
  • rocky
  • shake
  • stir
  • stir sth up
  • swing
  • teeter
  • throb
  • totter
  • tremble
  • tremulous
  • wag

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Increasing and intensifying

fan verb [ T ] (MAKE WORSE)

literary to encourage bad emotions or behaviour to get worse:

to fan the violence/hatred
The newspapers deliberately fanned the public's fears of losing their jobs.

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Deteriorating and making worse

  • a step backwards idiom
  • a turn of the screw idiom
  • add
  • afford
  • aggravate
  • backslide
  • compound
  • decline
  • degrade
  • disintegrate
  • dog
  • downgrade
  • downhill
  • exacerbate
  • regress
  • relapse
  • retrograde
  • retrogress
  • run yourself down
  • slip

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Idiom(s)

fan the flames

Phrasal verb(s)

fan out
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