Wan

Definition: Wan

Wan

Adjective

1. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn".

2. Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed".

3. Lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile".

Noun

1. A computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network.

Verb

1. Become pale and sickly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Computing

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

WAN

WAN

WAN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Wan

Dejection

Serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.

Crosswords: Wan

Dutch (electric fan, ventilator), Pidgin English (are going to, to want, want), Sranan (a, an, one).

I've been waiting for you, Obi Wan. We meet again at last (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.)

I say hey sky, s'other s'ay I wan say (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

Don’t ease the tension just run the program gal wan pet it (Get Busy; performing artist: SEAN PAUL)

Percolate anything you wan fi call it (Get Busy; performing artist: SEAN PAUL)

Kikaidâ Zero Wan (1973)

Chôjin Baromu wan (1971)

Dop bey kuan wan (1971)

Qian wan ren gu (1971)

Wan jian chuan xin (1971)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Wan Hai Lines Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• 2000 USMB: Networking (LAN and WAN) [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Cisco WAN Quick Start (reference)

• Cisco WAN Switching Professional Reference (reference)

• Flash Forward Presents Advanced Flash 5 Action Script With Samuel Wan (reference)

• The LAN and WAN Hardware Markets in Israel, 1999-2004 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Tai Wan Shui Chan Hsueh Hui Kan = Journal Of The Fisheries Society Of Taiwan (reference)

• Taiwan Fengwu - Tai Wan Feng Wu = Taiwan Folkways (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Deer Wan (reference)

• Vol. 2-Everything That You Wan (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Netopia Enet Wan Module R-Series Router (reference)

• Netopia Single V90 Wan Module For R-Series Routers (reference)

• Nortel Networks Arn V.34 Modem Wan Adapter Module Spare (reference)

• BN WAN SUITE 32M-PCCARD V15.2 (reference)

• CWRW WAN MGMT 1.2 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Chung Wan Pang]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Steams in Sagami Wan, outside of Tokyo Bay, in company with other Third Fleet warships, to support the occupation of Yokosuka naval base, 28 August 1945. Mount Fuji is in the left center distance Photographed from USS Cumberland Sound (AV-17). Credit: NAVY.

Anchored in Sagami Wan or Tokyo Bay, Japan, with other units of the U.S. Third Fleet, 30 August 1945. Mount Fujiyama is faintly visible in the distance. Missouri is flying Admiral William F. Halsey's four-star flag. Credit: NAVY.

In Sagami Wan, outside of Tokyo Bay, Japan, circa late August 1945, at the time Third Fleet ships initially entered Japanese waters. Credit: NAVY.

Two Third Fleet heavy cruisers anchored in Sagami Wan, outside of Tokyo Bay, Japan, 28 August 1945. Closest ship is USS Quincy (CA-71). The other is USS Boston (CA-69). Photographed by Lt. G.D. Rogers, of USS Shangri-La (CV-38). Credit: NAVY.

Sailors on the bow of USS Nicholas (DD-449) watch the Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura steaming in company off Tokyo Bay, 27 August 1945. The Japanese ship had brought out several naval officers and harbor pilots for a conference on USS Missouri concerning the entry of the Third fleet into Sagami Wan and Tokyo Bay. Note radars, depressed gun barrels, Japanese naval ensign and other details of this Tachibana class destroyer. Credit: NAVY.

The Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura lies to, with a USS Nicholas (DD-449) whaleboat alongside to transfer Japanese officers for discussions concerning the entry of U.S. and British warships into Sagami Wan and Tokyo Bay, 27 August 1945. Photographed by Chief Photographer's Mate F.B. Gavin. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Do not pity me till I saw her wan, sick looks

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Business

CLEC's have been actively pursuing the medium and large enterprise businesses by offering them full services in LAN and WAN networks. (references)

The lower end of the WAN market, i.e. small and medium-sized businesses should also grow at around 18-20 percent in the next 12 months. (references)

Narrowband ISDN, as a means of switched WAN access in data networks, is a solution for satellite services because of its reliability, fast-call set up, flexibility, and ability to support existing WAN protocols. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

The WAN expelled the Association in 1997 for its failure to oppose repression of freedom of the press. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

The Peak, Wan Chai/Mid-levels, and the South Side of Hong Kong Island are the most popular living areas for expatriates. (references)

Hong Kong

Prices for Grade A space in Wan Chai North, another popular commercial district for multinational companies on Hong Kong Island, grew by 4.2 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "wan": Aifu Nuangong Wan ♦ Angong Niuhuang Wan ♦ Ankun Zanyu Wan ♦ Anshen Buxin Wan ♦ ashen bloodless livid lurid pale pallid pasty wan waxen ♦ automatic WAN routing ♦ Babao Kunshun Wan ♦ Baidai Wan ♦ Baihe Gujin Wan ♦ Baizi Yangxin Wan ♦ Baohe Wan ♦ Bazhen Yimu Wan ♦ Binglang Sixiao Wan ♦ Boyun Tuiyi Wan ♦ Bushen Guchi Wan ♦ Chaihu Shugan Wan ♦ Chenxiang Huaqi Wan ♦ Cuitang Wan ♦ Dabuyin Wan ♦ Dahuang Zhechong Wan ♦ Danggui Longhui Wan ♦ Danggui Yangxue Wan ♦ Dashanzha Wan ♦ Desheng Wan ♦ Dieda Wan ♦ Erchen Wan ♦ Erlong Zuoci Wan ♦ Ershiwuwei Shanhu Wan ♦ Ershiwuwei Songshi Wan ♦ Ershiwuwei Zhenzhu Wan ♦ Ertong Qingfei Wan ♦ Erzhi Wan ♦ Fangfeng Tongsheng Wan ♦ Fenqing Wulin Wan ♦ Fuke Fenqing Wan ♦ Fuke Tongjing Wan ♦ Fuzi Lizhong Wan ♦ Geiie Dingchuan Wan ♦ Guifu Lizhong Wan ♦ Guilu Bushen Wan ♦ Heche Dazao Wan ♦ Huaijiao Wan ♦ Huatuo Zaizao Wan ♦ Huixiang Juhe Wan ♦ Huodan Wan ♦ Hupo Baolong Wan ♦ Jianbu Wan ♦ Jiangtang Wan ♦ Jianpi Wan ♦ Jiawei Xiaoyao Wan ♦ Jiebai Wan ♦ Jieji Ningsou Wan ♦ Jisheng Shenqi Wan ♦ Jiuqi Niantong Wan ♦ Juhong Wan ♦ Kaixiong Shunqi Wan ♦ Kanggu Zengsheng Wan ♦ Kongxian Wan ♦ Liangfu Wan ♦ Liuhe Dingzhong Wan ♦ Liuying Wan ♦ Longdan Xiegan Wan ♦ Lusika Wan ♦ Maiwei Dihuang Wan ♦ Maren Runchang Wan ♦ Meihua Dianshe Wan ♦ Mengshi Guntan Wan ♦ Miaoji Wan ♦ Mugua Wan ♦ Muxiang Fenqi Wan ♦ Niuhuang Baolong Wan ♦ Niuhuang Qingxin Wan ♦ Niuhuang Zhenjing Wan ♦ Pinggan Shuluo Wan ♦ Qiangyang Baoshen Wan ♦ Qianjin Zhidai Wan ♦ Qianlieshu Wan ♦ Qiju Dihuang Wan ♦ Qingfei Yihuo Wan ♦ Qingguo Wan ♦ Qingning Wan ♦ Qingqi Huatan Wan ♦ Qingwei Huanglian Wan ♦ Qingxuan Wan ♦ Qingyan Wan ♦ Qipi Wan ♦ Qishiwei Zhenzhu Wan ♦ Qiwei Duqi Wan ♦ Qiwei Guangzao Wan ♦ Qiwei Ketengzi Wan ♦ Qiwei Tiexie Wan ♦ Qizhen Wan ♦ Renshen Jianpi Wan ♦ Sanmiao Wan ♦ Shanzha Huazhi Wan ♦ Shaofu Zhuyu Wan ♦ Shengxue Wan ♦ Shenrong Baifeng Wan ♦ Shenrong Baotai Wan ♦ Shensu Wan ♦ Shexiang Baoxin Wan. Additional references.

Beginning with "wan": wan-chen.

Ending with "wan": hole-in-wan.

Containing "wan": obi-wan error.

Albanian

verdhacuk (pallid, sallow), verdhacak (pale, pallid, sallow), i zbetë (bloodless, faint, lurid, mealy, sallow, watery, white), i zbehtë (anaemic, anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dim, dingy, ghastly, light, livid, pale, pallid, paly, peaked), i vranët (heavy), i venitur (faded), i trishtuar (blue, cheerless, comfortless, dark, disappointed, disappointing, doleful, down, dreary, elegiac, funereal, gloomy, grievous, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, miserable, mopish, mournful, pensive, rueful, sad, tristful, unhappy, vapoury, wailful, wistful, woebegone, woeful, woesome). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مصفر (pallid, yellowed, yellowish, yellowy), ‏غير مجد (ineffective, ineffectual, unavailing), ‏سقيم (below par, ill, poor, puny, rickety, sick, sickly, unwell), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏شحب (be sickly, blanch, blemish, etiolation, fade, go white, pale, pall, turn pale), ‏شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, sickly), ‏باهت (dim, dull, faint, indistinct, lank, pale, pallid, washed out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъжен (bleak, cheerless, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, dull, dusky, elegiac, gloomy, heavy, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, mournful, pensive, plaintive, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, tristful, wistful, woebegone, woeful), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, woolly), натъжавам се (become sad), едва доловим (subtle, thready), бледнея (diminish, pale), блед (bloodless, colorless, colourless, dim, faint, lunar, pale, pallid, paly, thin, washy, watery), помръквам (become gloomy, become overcast, darken, lower), побледнявам (blench, grow white, pale, whiten), побледнял (pale, pallid, whey-faced), плах (faint, furtive, mousey, nervy, pigeon-hearted, pusillanimous, stealthy, timid, tremulous), изнурен, изпит (drawn, exam, examination, haggard, pinched, test). (various references)

Chinese 

蒼白 (pale), 广域网, 廣域網路 (wide area network), 廣域網 (wide area network). (various references)

Czech

slabý (bad, decrepit, delicate, faint, fainting, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, watery, weak, weakly, weak-minded, weary), mdlý (dull, faint, flat, languid, pale, sapless, sick, sickly, torpid, vapid, watery), chabý (faint, frail, lame, threadbare, torpid, vapid, weedy), bledý (bloodless, ghastly, pale, pallid, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sickly), bezbarvý (achromatic, colorless, colourless). (various references)

Farsi 

کم خون (Anemic), کم رنگ (Colourless, Pallid), زرد (Aquamarine, Yellow), رنگ پریده شدن یاکردن , رنگ پریده (Colourless, Ghastly, Lurid, Pale, Pallid, Sallowish). (various references)

Finnish

kalvakka (pale). (various references)

French

triste (wailful), pâlir, pâle, maigre, faible (watery), blafard, blêmir, blême. (various references)

German

bleich (bloodless, complexionless, pale, pale-faced, pallid, sallow, sheer, wanly). (various references)

Greek 

ωχρόσ (ghastly, haggard, pale, pallid, sallow, yellowish), χλωμόσ (pale, palish, sallow, sallowish), αδύνατοσ (feeble, flimsy, frail, impossible, impotent, languishing, languorous, puny, sappy, sinewless, sleazy, slender, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, washy, weak). (various references)

Hungarian

sápadt (anaemic, blank, chalky, dim, light, pale, pallid, pasty-faced, sallow, tallow-faced, to look green about the gills, white), halvány (blanch, bloodless, dim, distant, faint, light, pale, pallid, sickly, vague, white). (various references)

Indonesian

pucat (pale, pallid). (various references)

Italian

triste (black, bleak, blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, cheerless, dark, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dull, dusky, gaunt, gloomy, heavy, hipped, lachrymose, miserable, moody, moped, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, woebegone), smunto (haggard, meager, meagre), smorto (dull, expressionless, lifeless, pale), pallido (dim, faint, mealy, pale, pallid, sallow), esangue (bloodless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雲呑 (wan-tan, won-on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

わんたん (wan-tan, won-on). (various references)

Manx

treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, sickly, wretched, wretched of thing). (various references)

Pig Latin

anway.(various references)

Portuguese

sem cor (colorless, colourless, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty, tintless, washy), pálido (ashen, ashy, blank, chalky, colorless, colourless, linen, livid, lurid, mealy, off-color, off-colour, pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, perse, sallow, sickly, tallowy, washed-out, white-headed), lívido (blue, ghastly, livid, lurid, pale, pallid, perse, sallow, tallowy), doentio (crank, diseased, green, insalubrious, insanitary, morbid, reckling, sickly, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome, weak, weakly, wishy-washy), descorado (pale, pallid, paly, sallow), abatido (broken-hearted, crestfallen, dead-alive, dejected, depressed, despondent, dismal, down, downcast, down-hearted, dumpish, haggard, hagridden, heavy-laden, joyless, languishing, low-spirited, melancholy, moped, prostrate, reduced, washed-out, woebegone). (various references)

Romanian

spãlãcit (colorless, colourless, dim, dull, pale, washed out, washy), palid (ashen, ashy, colorless, colourless, doughy, etiolated, female, Gray, green, grey, haggard, lightish, lunar, lurid, pale, pallid, paly, sickly, washed out, white), pal (pale, pallid, paly), galben (ghastly, jaundiced, xanthous, yellow, yellowish), gãlbejit (colorless, colourless, yellow), şters (colorless, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, Gray, grey, low-pitched, pale, sad, washy, wiped, wiping). (various references)

Russian 

бледный (ashy, ashy-gray, chalky, colorless, colourless, feeble, grey, light, lurid, mealy, pale, pallid, paly, sallow, washy, whey-faced, wishy-washy). (various references)

Scottish

uaine (green), bàn (blank, blond, fair, fair-haired, fair-haired : am bàn, pale, the untilled part, white). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bled (mealy, pale, paled, pallid, sallow, white livered). (various references)

Spanish

pálido (ashen, dull, faint, ghastly, green, green about the gills, light, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, white). (various references)

Swedish

glåmig (lurid, pale, pasty, sallow, washed out). (various references)

Turkish

yorgun (all in, all out, bushed, done, drawn, effete, forworn, jaded, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, tired, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weary, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle), soluk (ashy, breath, breathing, cadaverous, colorless, colourless, dull, exhalation, faded, faint, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, sick, sickly, washy, watery), solgun (anaemic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bloodless, colorless, colourless, doughy, drooping, faded, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow), bitik, benzi atmış (pale, pallid, turned pale). (various references)

Ukrainian

сірий (blunket, drab, grey, grisly, grizzly, leaden), сумний (afflictive, baleful, cheerless, comfortless, damp, dark, deplorable, despondent, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, elegiac, elegiacal, grievous, heavy-hearted, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, maddening, melancholy, mournful, overcast, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, wailful), тьмяніти (darkle, dim, dull, glaze, glaze over, pale, tarnish), тьмяний (crepuscular, dim, dingy, dull, glaucous, glazed, glazy, lacklustre, obscure, opaque, sad, waterish), виснажений (all in, atrophic, atrophous, attenuate, attenuated, barren, beat, bedrid, cachectic, crocked, effete, emaciate, emaciated, exhausted, hidebound, impoverished, jaded, outspent, outworn, overcome, overdriven, overworn, perished, played out, sapless, spent, washed out, washed up, weariful, whipped-up, worn, worn out), зникати (come off, die, die down, disappear, dispel, dissipate, evanish, go out of being, ooze, pass away, pass off, pass out, peter out, vanish, walk, wear away), бліднути (pale, whiten), блідий (ashy, chalky, characterless, etiolated, lunar, lunary, pale, pasty, sallow, watery, whey-faced, white, white-faced). (various references)

Vietnamese 

yếu ớt uể oải, xanh xao; nhợt nhạt, mệt mỏi (jaded, mondayish, tired, wearied, weary). (various references)

pallens, pallidus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "wan": wand, wander, wandered, wanderer, wanderers, wandering, wanderings, wanderlust, wanderlusts, wanderoo, wanderoos, wanders, wandle, wands, wane, waned, wanes, waney, wangan, wangans, wangle, wangled, wangler, wanglers, wangles, wangling, wangun, wanguns, wanier, waniest, wanigan, wanigans, waning, wanion, wanions, wanly, wannabe, wannabes, wanned, wanner, wanness, wannesses, wannest, wannigan, wannigans, wanning, wans, want, wantage, wantages, wanted. (additional references)

Words ending with "wan": ajowan, deewan, dewan, diwan, gowan, hwan, jawan, rewan, rowan, seawan, sewan, swan. (additional references)

Words containing "wan": ajowans, allowance, allowanced, allowances, allowancing, bwana, bwanas, deewans, dewans, disallowance, disallowances, diwans, gowaned, gowans, gowany, jawans, kwanza, kwanzas, rowanberries, rowanberry, rowans, seawans, seawant, seawants, sewans, shwanpan, shwanpans, sowans, swang, swanherd, swanherds, swank, swanked, swanker, swankest, swankier, swankiest, swankily, swankiness, swankinesses, swanking, swanks, swanky, swanlike, swanned, swanneries, swannery, swanning, swanpan, swanpans, swans. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aan, awon, ewan, gwan, gwaun, owan, Qan, Qwa, Qwaa, wa, waa, waac, Waana, wab, wac, waen, waf, Wahn, waj, wak, wam, Wana, wani, wanna, wanny, wano, wanq, wans, wanz, wao, waon, waq, wasn, wau, waxn, wayn, waz, weni, wenl, wenn, whn, wian, woan, wuan, wun, wyan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: awn, naw.

-1 letter: an, aw, na.

+1 letter: anew, awns, awny, dawn, fawn, gnaw, hwan, lawn, mawn, pawn, sawn, snaw, swan, wain, wand, wane, wans, want, wany, warn, wean, yawn.

+2 letters: adown, awing, awned, blawn, brawn, bwana, dawen, dawns, dewan, diwan, drawn, fawns, fawny, gnawn, gnaws, gowan, jawan, lawns, lawny, nawab, noway, pawns, prawn, rawin, rewan, rowan, sewan, shawn, snaws, spawn, swain, swang, swank, swans, tawny, twain, twang, wagon, wains, waken, wands, waned, wanes, waney, wanly, wants, warns, waxen, weans, whang, wigan, witan, woman, wrang, yawns.