dag vs fan

dag

verb
  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

noun
  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

fan

verb
  • To invigorate, like flames when fanned. 

  • To dispel by waving a hand-held fan. 

  • To strike out. 

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

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

  • To slap (a behind, especially). 

  • To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise. 

  • To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession. 

  • To strike out (a batter). 

  • To winnow grain. 

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

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

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

  • A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport. 

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

  • The action of fanning; agitation of the air. 

  • 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. 

  • A section of a tree having a finite number of branches 

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