(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.
Winnow
Definition:
(v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Winnowing by embiotocids is characterized by premaxillary protrusions repeated cyclically with reduced oral gape.
(2) It’s a remorseless process of winnowing down, from which only one worthy champion can emerge* and the Guardian is here the whole way through, with spoiler alerts roughly every minute, having read the book (Klinsi turns out to have been a wolf all along...) One of tonight’s teams is playing roughly a game a minute at the moment — Confederations Cup and Gold Cup scheduling saw Jamaica’s game against Mexico moved to earlier this week — and that 1-0 loss was the first of three games the Jamaicans will play in eight days (Mexico are doing the same thing).
(3) Winnowed down by sector , the figures narrow further.
(4) evangelical votes chart In 2016, religious activists and political operatives insist, the support of Christian voters will be critical in the early-voting states of Iowa and South Carolina, where evangelical leaders believe they can best winnow a deep Republican field to take on Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner.
(5) Or, before the study began, early deaths may have winnowed susceptibles from the two older cohorts.
(6) It’s all about how much of a horrible, fascist, racist, misogynist Trump is.” On her own feed, Constantin found herself winnowing down her friends in order to avoid arguments.
(7) Several surfperches (Embiotocidae), including the black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, exhibit a specialized prey handling behavior known as winnowing, in which ingested food and non-nutritive debris are separated within the oropharyngeal cavity.
(8) A process that was intended to winnow out the unusually crowded Republican field before primary voting begins in February looks likely to keep pundits guessing to the last: chewing up and spitting out new winners and losers almost every time they take to the stage.
(9) Scott Walker shocks Republicans with dropout call to gang up on Donald Trump Read more Afterwards, on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele kindly speculated that Walker might also have been throwing a bone to his fellow Wisconsinite and current Chairman Reince Priebus, who wants to winnow the primary field.
(10) Under these circumstances low fitness genotypes are winnowed from the population by natural selection.
(11) The neglect of the national game has been deep and persistent and the winnowing of our skills base complete and utter.
(12) The respondent and co-respondent do not appear, and we have to winnow the matter as best we may.
(13) But the straw poll’s winnowing effect also has advantages – especially for those on the social conservative wing of the party.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arctic warming hits new record in 2015, says ocean watchdog Noaa – video Not only is the ice winnowing away, it is becoming younger – Noaa’s analysis of satellite data shows that 70% of the ice pack in March was composed of first-year ice, with just 3% of the ice older than four years.
(15) 102 species and 2 species varieties belonging to 36 genera were collected from combine harvester wheat and sorghum dusts and from the atmosphere of hay or winnow sites.
(16) Winnowing is believed to play an important role in the partitioning of food resources among sympatric embiotocids.
(17) We have come to the end of privacy; our private lives, as our grandparents would have recognised them, have been winnowed away to the realm of the shameful and secret.
(18) Hand it over to private companies and they will swoop in with their efficiency, their economies of scale, their incentives and their competitiveness, winnowing it down into a dart of perfectly targeted public spending.
(19) That private sense of: "You're someone I would like to spend time with", with as opposed to I winnowed you out in a group of a lot of other people.
(20) A post-mortem by party officials after Romney lost the 2012 presidential election to Barack Obama blamed a protracted primary campaign among Republicans for weakening their eventual candidate and recommended a shorter winnowing period.