What's the difference between fan and magpie?

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.

Magpie


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Isaac Julien, artist I have a magpie attitude to inspiration: I seek it from all sorts of sources; anything that allows me to think about how culture comes together.
  • (2) It was determined that MAGPI can be performed safely and cost-effectively on an ambulatory basis.
  • (3) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
  • (4) Capital One Cup: QPR lose to Carlisle and Watford lose to Preston Read more The beating of Huddersfield Town away in the first round was proof the new-look Magpies had the capacity to embarrass higher division opposition though, and a similar upset looked to be on the cards when Genaro Snijders’ long-range shot took a deflection that looped past the wrong-footed Villa goalkeeper Mark Bunn in the 16th minute.
  • (5) Fame Academy – the Blue Peter-like BBC attempt to ape Cowell's more Magpie-esque shows – built Sneddon up because, unlike those ITV poppets, he wrote his own songs.
  • (6) Moving swiftly on, Dominic Hart reminds us of an even more painful experience, physically at least, suffered by Newcastle supporter Robert Nesbitt, who chose to have a large image of Andy Cole in full Magpies garb tattooed on to his right thigh ... two days before Cole left for Manchester United.
  • (7) Lesions, grossly and histologically typical of pox infection, occurred in a white-backed magpie from Melbourne, Australia.
  • (8) De Jong joins the Tenerife striker Ayoze Pérez and Sunderland midfielder Jack Colback in signing for the Magpies this summer.
  • (9) As we stand by the edge of the Eaton Square Gardens, I can see a magpie or two hopping around, squawking at the hawk.
  • (10) The M inverted V glansplasty was designed to address the factors leading to meatal retraction and the abnormal glans shape sometimes seen after the MAGPI.
  • (11) In the long term, it is our experience that the MAGPI operation does not maintain a terminal position for the external urinary meatus, but the functional and cosmetic results are satisfactory.
  • (12) But maybe you have: maybe you’ve glanced out of the window and seen there, on the lawn, a bloody great hawk murdering a pigeon, or a blackbird, or a magpie, and it looks the hugest, most impressive piece of wildness you’ve ever seen, like someone’s tipped a snow leopard into your kitchen and you find it eating the cat.
  • (13) The daily organization of sleep and wakefulness was examined electrographically under natural conditions in captive juvenile and adult magpies, Pica pica.
  • (14) Over a one-year period, 96 consecutive children with distal hypospadias underwent mental advancement and glanuloplasty (MAGPI) for hypospadias repair.
  • (15) Glandular or coronal hypospadias have been repaired by MAGPI procedure (65 cases, 1 fistula, 1 meatal stricture), and distal penile hypospadias by Mathieu's urethroplasty (32 cases, 1 fistula), since 1981.
  • (16) He made his last appearance for the Swans, who are one point better off than the relegation-threatened Magpies, in Sunday’s 3-2 FA Cup third-round defeat at League Two Oxford , after which he became involved in a row with a disgruntled fan as he left the pitch.
  • (17) We have treated hypospadia that is strictly glandular either with Duckett's Magpi procedure (54 cases, 49 long-term follow-up, 47 good results, retraction of the meatus in two), or Koff's advancement procedure if there is a grow in glans (13 cases, 12 good results, on requiring meatostomy).
  • (18) The MAGPI procedure routinely is performed on an outpatient basis without any urinary diversion.
  • (19) Duckett's innovative meatoplasty and glanuloplasty (MAGPI) procedure has become a standard operation for the correction of these lesions.
  • (20) "Alternatively, draw up a contract between you absolving each other of liability if an accident occurs," advises Jasmine Birtles, author of The Money Magpie.

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