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Fan vs. Fen — What's the Difference?

Fan vs. Fen — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fan and Fen

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Fan

An apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation
A couple of ceiling fans, lazily turning
The kitchen may need to be fitted with an extractor fan

Fen

A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetlands along with marshes, swamps, and bogs.

Fan

A handheld device, typically folding and shaped like a segment of a circle when spread out, that is waved so as to cool the person holding it
The girls were giggling behind their fans

Fen

An area of low wet land having peaty soil and typically being less acidic than a bog.

Fan

A person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing
I'm a fan of this author
Football fans
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Fen

A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.

Fan

Cool (someone or something) by waving an object to create a current of air
He fanned himself with his hat

Fen

Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.
'Mid reedy fens wide spread.

Fan

Increase the strength of (a fire) by blowing on it or stirring up the air near it
Fanned by an easterly wind, the fire spread rapidly

Fen

100 fen equal 1 yuan

Fan

Disperse or radiate from a central point to cover a wide area
The arriving passengers began to fan out through the town in search of lodgings

Fen

Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water;
Thousands of acres of marshland
The fens of eastern England

Fan

A machine using an electric motor to rotate thin, rigid vanes in order to move air, as for cooling.

Fan

A collapsible, usually wedge-shaped device made of a light material such as silk, paper, or plastic.

Fan

An implement or machine for winnowing.

Fan

Something resembling an open fan in shape
A peacock's fan.

Fan

An ardent devotee; an enthusiast.

Fan

To move or cause a current of (air) with or as if with a fan.

Fan

To direct a current of air or a breeze upon, especially in order to cool
Fan one's face.

Fan

To stir (something) up by or as if by fanning
Fanned the flames in the fireplace.
A troublemaker who fanned resentment among the staff.

Fan

To open (something) out into the shape of a fan
The bird fanned its colorful tail.

Fan

To fire (an automatic gun) in a continuous sweep by keeping one's finger on the trigger.

Fan

To fire (a revolver) rapidly by chopping the hammer with the palm.

Fan

To winnow.

Fan

(Baseball) To strike out (a batter).

Fan

To spread out like a fan
The troops fanned out from the beachhead.

Fan

(Baseball) To strike out.

Fan

A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.

Fan

An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.

Fan

The action of fanning; agitation of the air.

Fan

Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.

Fan

An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

Fan

A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.

Fan

(maths) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches

Fan

A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
I am a big fan of libraries.

Fan

(transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind.

Fan

(transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).

Fan

To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.

Fan

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

Fan

To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.

Fan

(metaphoric) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.

Fan

To winnow grain.

Fan

To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
Fanning the brakes results in the gradual depletion of the pressure in the cars' brake reservoirs, which can eventually cause a loss of all braking.

Fan

To strike out.

Fan

To strike out (a batter).

Fan

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

Fan

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.

Fan

A quintain; - from its form.

Fan

To move as with a fan.
The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes.

Fan

To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.

Fan

To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves.

Fan

To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.

Fan

To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan excites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.

Fan

A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces

Fan

An enthusiastic devotee of sports

Fan

An ardent follower and admirer

Fan

Strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)

Fan

Make (an emotion) fiercer;
Fan hatred

Fan

Agitate the air

Fan

Separate from chaff;
She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field

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