I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cricket fan (= someone who likes cricket, especially watching it )
a fan club (= for people who like a particular team, band, person etc )
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I used to be a member of the Take That fan club.
a sports fan (= someone who enjoys watching sport )
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He was a big sports fan.
be a big fan/admirer of sb/sth
devoted fans
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Beckham’s devoted fans
fan belt
fan club
fan fiction
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Most fan fiction websites acknowledge that their authors do not own the characters involved.
fan mail (= letters from fans )
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He gets so much fan mail he had to employ a secretary to deal with it.
fan the flames (= make them burn more by waving something in front of them )
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She used a large piece of card to fan the flames.
football fan (= someone who likes football a lot )
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Pat is a keen football fan.
rival fans/supporters
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There were fights between rival fans after the match.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Uncle Tu was a big fan of your teacher.
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A big fan of the toys is Ted's young son, Sean, who attends Courtaulds' creche, in Coventry.
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The big fan above the door hums.
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John Miller, 57, is a big Frank Sinatra fan .
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He is a big fan of reggae music and the late Bob Marley, a follower of the Rastafarian religion.
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Amanda Holden is a big fan , apparently.
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Eric Clapton, Greg Allman and many other great guitar players were big fans of his.
great
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He became a great fan of yours after a particularly exciting performance you conducted of Belshazzar's Feast.
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He was a great fan of waitresses.
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And I was a great fan of Hank's.
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For half an hour, the great fan blows, and iron melts, gathering at the base of the furnace.
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I am a great fan of rave music yet the lyrics have never made me want to try the drug.
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Last week Couples left his clubs in the bag, relaxed and watched basketball, of which he is a great fan .
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The old-money set was not Mrs Hancock's greatest fan .
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Anyway, my father and his theatrical consortium have always been great fans of Trumpton.
■ NOUN
base
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Aside from the band itself, an interesting aspect of Neon Prophet is its fan base .
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Her relentless touring and razor-sharp musical skills are widening her fan base .
club
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I believe that if an act wants to run a fan club , it should be a service rather than a profit-making enterprise.
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Selena was murdered by the president of her fan club last March 31.
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In just the few seconds that it took Roebuck to de-rail Shelford, a whole new Marty Roebuck fan club was born.
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Now if only there was an okonomiyaki fan club !
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Of these some 6,000 are members of a fan club . 18.
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When all that failed, the fan club began to reach out to feel him, shake his hand.
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But Dolan and Burgess have not signed up for the fan club .
football
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Pat is a keen football fan .
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Pittsburgh women have always been astute football fans .
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A keen football fan , he attended Dinamo's first leg 2-1 win and met with Linfield chairman David Campbell.
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It caused outrage around the world among politicians, football fans and administrators.
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But on the biggest beer drinking day of the year, some football fans will reach for a nonalcoholic beer.
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Or both. Football fans were smiling for obvious reasons.
letter
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Michael Aspel: I've only once in my life written a fan letter to a film star.
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Next up could be photos in teen magazines and fan letters .
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He received 2,000 fan letters a week and, when filming, had no less than 18 stand-ins lined up.
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When I began writing a column for the Oakland Tribune in 1963, one of my first fan letters was from Caen.
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Mlle Bernardi wasn't forgotten in the excitement; she received a reported 50,000 fan letters .
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At any rate, the programme drew a large and regular fan mail .
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Q: Do you read all your fan mail ?
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She tells him For Women have been swamped with fan mail and want to do a contemporary shoot.
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Q: Do you get fan mail , and do you answer it?
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He is happy to receive fan mail at the following address:.
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The Barf-O-Rama Web site has generated fan mail from kids eager to share their own gross tales.
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He also apologizes for not reading all his fan mail , which requires a staff of five.
music
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The most important element is, though, the one most often overlooked: the man is obviously a music fan .
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All in all, it was a lousy year for music fans .
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As the political winds shifted in the early 1990s, newly liberated music fans went for Western idols such as Whitney Houston.
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This diversity has enabled the festival to attract celebrity music fans , too.
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The song has to be considered at best lame by any music fan exercising normal powers of discretion.
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Acoustic and folk music fans are familiar with her 20-year span of live performance and recorded works.
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Cool jazz, as it was called, was smart stuff but quite accessible to music fans who knew little about jazz.
soccer
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Dear old staid, conservative, non-violent Britain. Soccer fans were its contribution to the global tradition of random violence.
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After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
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After more enquiries, a devout soccer fan gave me a selection to read.
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And they were real soccer fans who were really into the game, standing and yelling.
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Claimants include families of the 95 soccer fans killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - some expecting cheques this week.
■ VERB
ceiling
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I open all the windows in my bedroom and turn on the ceiling fan .
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Showered, under the ceiling fan in his room at the Coligny, Converse woke to the telephone.
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In the first moments of waking, he looks up in puzzlement at the aged ceiling fan revolving above his bed.
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Comfort is the reason old-fashioned ceiling fans have been making a comeback, especially during the last decade.
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If you have some air-conditioning, ceiling fans can make it feel like you have more.
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And if you have central air, ceiling fans can help you use it more efficiently.
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In the winter, reversible ceiling fans can help circulate warm air and make furnace use more efficient.
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The Del Mar also needed more ceiling insulation, ventilation fans and dozens of new refrigerators and stoves.
form
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On the proximal arm segment the arm spines meet midradially forming a single fan .
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It grows to seven feet, and its flower heads, whitish and forming a fan shape, appear in October.
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There are 4-5 smooth arm spines, the proximal ones well separated midradially, not forming a fan .
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The arm spines do not form a fan on the proximal joints.
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They do not form a fan on proximal arm segments.
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There are 7-8 finely rugose and flattened arm spines proximally 5-6 distally; not forming a fan on the proximal arm joints.
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In some specimens the arm spines form a fan on the proximal arm segment.
hit
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Eventually, they got to the part of the story where they found Sandoz, and the shit hit the proverbial fan .
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And then it hit the fan .
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The famous stuff hit the fan .
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So the shit really is hitting the fan .
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I may have hit the Mel Sterland fan club here.
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None of this national resentment will really hit the Marlins fans .
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Creed assumed these people had flown as soon as the soft stuff had hit the fan .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
armchair traveller/fan etc
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The armchair traveller for whom you are shooting these pictures does not want to visualize paradise under cloud.
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The first figures hint that armchair fans aren't rushing out to buy dishes because of the new football contract.
the shit hits the fan
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The shit really hit the fan when Andy saw the phone bill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fans of Sylvester Stallone will enjoy this movie.
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a beautiful, delicate Japanese fan
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a football fan
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I'm not much of a basketball fan , but I love baseball.
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Leeds fans howled in anguish as Arsenal scored another goal.
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Over 200 British football fans were sent home after the violence in Rimini.
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Thousands of fans came to hear Oasis play.
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Thousands of fans queued to buy tickets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he played splendid golf, which at least kept his fans in good spirits.
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Earnhardt's death seems to have spawned a touch of indifference among the legions of loyal stock car racing fans.
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I couldnt tell if it was Soton fans joining in the appreciation, or just Leeds fans everywhere.
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Once, he threw a baseball in the stands that struck a fan in the chest.
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Seating around the perimeter of the oval would allow fans a panoramic view over the entire track.
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This doubles the time the fans show little consideration.
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Those irate fans, however, may be mollified if the committee continues to deal consistently with all such offenders.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
flame
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Their efforts were hampered by recent dry weather and moderate winds fanning the flames .
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As they toured the country showing the fruits of seismic tomography, they fanned the flames of interest in this new technique.
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The work of the modern quantum chemist has helped to fan the flames of this debate.
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Widespread fires generate their own wind, which fan the flames into devastating firestorms.
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But the fact is that the very lack of evidence seems to fan the flames of suspicion.
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Meanwhile, Spong, who fanned the flames of the debate in 1988 when he ordained the Rev.
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enlightened despotism, secularism, nationalism and liberalism had all fanned the flames .
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That should be enough time to fan the flames of an all-out, old-fashioned quarterback squabble.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gina fanned herself with a newspaper.
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If the bird fans its tail and has a shiny black breast color, it's a male.
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Some politicians are deliberately fanning nationalist emotions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they toured the country showing the fruits of seismic tomography, they fanned the flames of interest in this new technique.
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Haverford fanned himself with his panama hat and wheezed like a rusty concertina.
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Having skirted the mire itself without success, the search-party fanned out to cover a wider area, calling Horatia's name.
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I slid down in my bed, my hair fanning out over the headboard like a thick black fringe.
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So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger.