scan
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
computing
engineering
journalism
literature
mathematics
media
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
poetry
publishing
sciences
writing
Etymology: From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scandō (“to climb, rise, mount”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”).
Inflected forms:
form: scans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scanned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She scanned the passage carefully but could not find what she was looking for.
He scanned the horizon.
Yet the incident did not in the least diminish my respect for my teacher. I was by nature blind to the faults of elders. Later I came to know of many other failings of this teacher, but my regard for him remained the same. For I had learnt to carry out the orders of elders, not to scan their actions.
Slowly, he scanned the horizon, listening, watching for the signs he had been taught.
As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
gloss: To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to scan the hard drive for errors
gloss: To look about for; to look over quickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To look about for; to look over quickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to scan a photograph
to scan internal organs by means of computed tomography
Pencil drawings don't scan very well.
gloss: To read with an electronic device.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to scan a barcode
to scan a QR code
In the dispute with the RMT about scanning tickets, Jackson said it was the right thing to do to pay conductors something to scan tickets. Northern pays two pence per scan, Jackson noted, adding that ticket scanning helps to cut fraud and increase staff visibility.
gloss: To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan, / There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain,— / Morat ! the proud, the patriot field ! where man / May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain,[…]
gloss: To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In such cases as these, almost any one with a good ear will "scan" the verse correctly enough without instruction. It is not proposed to give here a list of Shakspere's slurred and contracted words; […]
gloss: To conform to a metrical structure.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You're right, sir, it doesn't scan very well in the English, but in the Gaelic it's sheer poetry. Have you the Gaelic?
gloss: A close investigation.
pos: noun
gloss: A close investigation.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of scanning.
pos: noun
examples: The operators vacated the room during the scan.
In the dispute with the RMT about scanning tickets, Jackson said it was the right thing to do to pay conductors something to scan tickets. Northern pays two pence per scan, Jackson noted, adding that ticket scanning helps to cut fraud and increase staff visibility.
gloss: The result or output of a scanning process.
pos: noun
examples: The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.
gloss: A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.
pos: noun
Related words: scansion
pan and scan
scanlate
scanlation
scanlator
scanner
Derived words: backscan
descan
forescan
prescan
scannability
scannable
misscan
radioscan
rescan
bioscan
body scan
bone scan
bootscan
brainscan
B-scan
cardioscan
CAT scan
con-scan
CT scan
downscan
egoscan
fluoroscan
helical scan
hitscan
interscan
introscan
keyscan
line scan
livescan
microscan
moisture scan
multiscan
NT scan
nuchal scan
nuchal translucency scan
overscan
pan and scan
portscan
postscan
radiochromatoscan
scan-a-thon
scanathon
scanbed
scancode
scan code
scanday
scan doubler
scanless
scanline
scan line
scanno
scanography
scanometric
scanpath
scan sheet
scanslation
scantron
scanxiety
self-scan
Shuric scan
slit-scan
ultrascan
underscan
upscan
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَحَّصَ
roman: maḥḥaṣa
lang: Arabic
word: تَمَعَّنَ
roman: tamaʕʕana
lang: Arabic
word: درس
roman: daras
lang: Bulgarian
word: изучавам
roman: izučavam
lang: Estonian
word: otsima
lang: Finnish
word: tutkia pala palalta
lang: Finnish
word: tutkia järjestelmällisesti
lang: Finnish
word: kammata
lang: French
word: scanner
lang: French
word: fouiller
lang: Greek
word: εξετάζω
roman: exetázo
lang: Greek
word: διερευνώ
roman: dierevnó
lang: Hebrew
word: סָרַק
roman: saráq
lang: Hungarian
word: végigpásztáz
lang: Hungarian
word: átvizsgál
lang: Hungarian
word: végignéz
lang: Hungarian
word: szemügyre vesz
lang: Italian
word: scrutare
lang: Latin
word: percurrō
lang: Māori
word: karapa
lang: Māori
word: tirotiro
lang: Māori
word: matawai
lang: Māori
word: mātai
lang: Norman
word: scanner
lang: Portuguese
word: varrer
lang: Romanian
word: a baleia imaginea
lang: Romanian
word: explora
lang: Romanian
word: scana
lang: Romanian
word: sonda
lang: Russian
word: разгля́дывать
roman: razgljádyvatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: escrutar
lang: Swedish
word: avsöka
lang: Swedish
word: genomsöka
lang: Catalan
word: escorcollar
lang: Dutch
word: afspeuren
lang: Estonian
word: otsima
lang: Finnish
word: tähyillä
lang: Finnish
word: silmäillä
lang: Finnish
word: tutkia
lang: Greek
word: ανιχνεύω
roman: anichnévo
lang: Hungarian
word: átfut
lang: Hungarian
word: átnéz
lang: Hungarian
word: áttekint
lang: Hungarian
word: rápillant
lang: Māori
word: mātai
lang: Romanian
word: scruta
lang: Romanian
word: cerceta
lang: Swedish
word: avsöka