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Wan vs Ean - What's the difference?

wan | ean |

As verbs the difference between wan and ean

is that wan is past tense of win while ean is to bring forth young; yean.

As an adjective wan

is pale, sickly-looking.

As a noun wan

is the quality of being wan; wanness.

As an initialism EAN is

european Article Numbering: a barcode symbology whose main variant, EAN-13, encodes thirteen digits, differing from UPC-A in that three of the digits in the left half are reversed so as to encode an additional digit.

wan

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(wanner)
  • Pale, sickly-looking.
  • * Spenser
  • Sad to view, his visage pale and wan .
  • * Longfellow
  • the wan moon overhead
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  • Dim, faint.
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  • Bland, uninterested.
  • A wan expression

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being wan; wanness.
  • * Tennyson
  • Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (win)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    ean

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • European Article Numbering: a barcode symbology whose main variant, EAN-13, encodes thirteen digits, differing from UPC-A in that three of the digits in the left half are reversed so as to encode an additional digit.
  • See also

    * GTIN * UPC * barcode

    Anagrams

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