Fanlight vs. Transom — What's the Difference?

A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan. It is placed over another window or a doorway, and is sometimes hinged to a transom.

A horizontal crosspiece over a door or between a door and a window above it.

A semicircular or semielliptical window, often with sash bars arranged like the ribs of a fan, usually placed over a door or another window.

A small hinged window above a door or another window.

Chiefly British A transom.

A horizontal dividing bar of wood or stone in a window.

A semicircular or semioval window over a door or other window, normally having a fan-like structure of ribs; sometimes hinged to the transom

A lintel.

An electric fan, usually a ceiling fan, that is also a light fixture

The stern of a square-sterned boat or ship.

A window above a door and hinged to a transom

Any of several transverse beams affixed to the sternpost of a wooden ship and forming part of the stern.

A window in a roof to admit daylight

The aftermost transverse structural member in a steel ship, including the floor, frame, and beam assembly at the sternpost.

A semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan

The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.

(architectural element) A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.

(architectural element) A horizontal dividing bar in a window.

A transom window.

(nautical) Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart.

(nautical) The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship.a ship's transom (flat stern)

The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.

Items that have arrived over the transom.

A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; - called also transsummer.

The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

The vane of a cross-staff.

One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

A window above a door and hinged to a transom

A horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it