What's the difference between aficionado and fan?

Aficionado


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
  • (2) In 1972 the BBC produced his tale The Stone Tape, a technological ghost story still renowned among aficionados for the twist in its tail.
  • (3) ... George Clooney in a still from Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity Sci-fi aficionados will know there are two possible ways to "do" sound in space on the big screen.
  • (4) The quality was poor, yet it was close and compelling to aficionados.
  • (5) Hamilton can be enjoyed by both the musical theater geek and the rap aficionado, but it ultimately has more to offer the former.
  • (6) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
  • (7) Male sketchwriters and assorted Westminster aficionados either affected bemused indulgence on behalf of their slighted sisters or scented the whiff of political-correctness-gone-mad.
  • (8) Things can sometimes go wrong – a 1961 Marcels record that appears in episode two sent US vinyl aficionados into a flurry when they spotted that it was on modern reissue label Eric.
  • (9) Jones is an aficionado of musicals, and he recently helped bring The Play What I Wrote, a successful British production about Morecambe and Wise, from London to New York.
  • (10) If you're a scouse coffee aficionado, let us know which one he means.
  • (11) In my new school, a top school, full of maths and science aficionados, the girl with well-developed boobs was queen.
  • (12) The club would evolve over the next decade into incarnations as Brookhattan-Galicia, Galicia FC and Galicia-Honduras, but their brush with Gaetjens gives them cult status amongst US soccer history aficionados.
  • (13) This new Batman was considered by fans and comic-book aficionados to be the real deal and a long overdue riposte to the infamously camp 1960s Batman TV series, starring a paunchy Adam West as the caped crusader.
  • (14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
  • (15) Ever since he bought out his contract from Bob Arum for the princely sum of $750,000 in 2007, he’s made all the right moves to become the highest earning athlete on the planet, no less than a miracle given his risk-averse, defensive style that appeals to a subset of aficionados but not a broader public that’s always preferred slugging to boxing.
  • (16) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?
  • (17) Not so long ago, I believed that anything that helped broaden interest in current art was to be welcomed; that only an elitist snob would want art to be confined to a worthy group of aficionados.
  • (18) Clinton joined Twitter last week – her biography reads : "Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD …"
  • (19) As Bond aficionados will be well aware, White’s job is to turn up every now and then to offer up cackling portents of impending doom regarding terrifying nefarious organisations that 007 and his pals appear to know nothing about.
  • (20) I've got a recorder, and I talk to myself" – he puts on a voice like a wine aficionado – "'Hmm, very rubbery.

Fan


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
  • (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.
  • (n.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.
  • (n.) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
  • (n.) Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.
  • (n.) A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
  • (n.) That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.
  • (n.) A quintain; -- from its form.
  • (n.) To move as with a fan.
  • (n.) To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.
  • (n.) To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
  • (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.
  • (n.) To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
  • (2) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
  • (3) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
  • (4) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (5) HTC needs to move from being star struck fan to star of its own ads.
  • (6) For now however, what’s left of their fan base are enjoying a rare burst of sunshine.
  • (7) Still, there are some aspects of Palin’s channel to recommend it to the devoted movement conservative that isn’t necessarily already a fan of hers – especially its obviating the need to resort to Palinology.
  • (8) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (9) Comparative clinical studies on temporomandibular joints (TMJ) between the LEGP and fan beam collimators also confirm the superior image quality obtained with the fan beam collimator.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
  • (11) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
  • (12) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
  • (13) Thank you to Manchester United, not just the directors, coaching staff, medical staff, the players, the fans, all of you – you have been the most fantastic experience of my life, so thank you.
  • (14) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
  • (15) Two men were arrested before the north London derby as football fans clashed with police.
  • (16) There is even a version specifically for Manchester United fans ("This badge is your badge, this badge is my badge!").
  • (17) Colin Ellis, European economist at Daiwa Securities SMBC, said: "Today's PMI data will only fan the glimmers of hope that have started to appear in recent weeks.
  • (18) "I manage a great group of players, a great institution and great fans.
  • (19) It's only fair to note that Apple fans are ecstatic at the prospect.
  • (20) For Argyle the result confirmed their relegation to League One, with the rival fans left to ponder wildly differing prospects next season.

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