Used in a Sentence

fanning

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fanning.

Editorial note

Not only marshalling/demarshalling of data, but fanning-in and then fanning out your concurrency on each end.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act by which something is fanned.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fanning gathered in one view.

noun

The act by which something is fanned.

noun

Winnowing.

noun

A very small fragment of tea leaf.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fanning.

noun

The act by which something is fanned.

noun

Winnowing.

noun

A very small fragment of tea leaf.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

1

Not only marshalling/demarshalling of data, but fanning-in and then fanning out your concurrency on each end.

2

Very similar to Ferguson, but no riots, no fanning of the social injustice flames by the media, etc.

3

Seriously, if your looking for root problems, not fanning the flames of bubble economies is a good start.

4

Color picking is often handled by swatches and fanning out real-world books of similar tones.

5

Are you saying that the red pill types are not fanning these flames?

6

So they stay private until they're big enough to fend off the hedgies who make money by planting and fanning rumors like this.

7

This type of architecture is more suitable for a workflow or job management system rather than fanning out data processing to N workers.

8

If you're watching a movie, it'll be fanning full speed.

9

They can make loads of profit selling commodity hardware that the Dell's of the world make only 5-10% margins on simply by fanning the flames of rabid fanboyism.

10

There are quite a few different forces, I only learned one (involving fanning out the cards in such a way that the participant selects it).

11

And everyone hates everyone else, and if you think the elites aren't fanning the flames of this with every tool at their disposal, then you really haven't been paying attention.

12

My current method (as you can perhaps tell) is to split the (non-relativistic) image into a bunch of thin triangle fanning out radially from your character, then redraw those images onto triangles with modified angle/vertices.

Quote examples

1

For the "fanning the flames" part, you'd have to either show me that entrenched media and political organizations aren't exacerbating existing, previously rather benign, divisions in society.

2

They talk about their recursive technique for starting from one point and fanning out, but they magically talk about "similarity" without giving any definition or indication of how they compute it.

3

Usually you can find ways to make them less necessary—IronRuby doesn't contain its own GC with Ruby semantics, it just translates Ruby's GCing requirements into calls to the CLR allocator+GC and the result works "well enough." > Not only marshalling/demarshalling of data, but fanning-in and then fanning out your concurrency on each end.

4

Any “fanning” done by journalists is presumably done because because it’s probably easier to do that than to find other, juicer, stories (where such stories might also be of such a nature to attract government interest).

Proper noun examples

1

At Quantcast, we sublet a big space that Snocap (Shawn Fanning's second company) had abandoned when they shut down.

2

Fanning the flames of hatred is unnecessary at best and sociopathic at worst.

3

Shawn Fanning's new company Rupture wanted the space.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fanning in a sentence?

Not only marshalling/demarshalling of data, but fanning-in and then fanning out your concurrency on each end.

What does fanning mean?

The act by which something is fanned.

What part of speech is fanning?

fanning is commonly used as noun.