English Explanatory Dictionary

scan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
To look about for; to look over quickly.
To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
To read with an electronic device.
To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
To conform to a metrical structure.

noun

A close investigation.
Of written things, a careful reading.
Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.
An instance of scanning.
The result or output of a scanning process.
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.

Pronunciation

/skæn/ en-us-scan.ogg

Word forms

scan scans scanning scanned

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”).

Synonyms

perusal

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

Translations

Arabic: مَحَّصَ Arabic: تَمَعَّنَ Arabic: درس Bulgarian: изучавам Estonian: otsima Finnish: tutkia pala palalta Finnish: tutkia järjestelmällisesti Finnish: kammata Finnish: tähyillä Finnish: silmäillä Finnish: tutkia French: scanner French: fouiller Greek: εξετάζω Greek: διερευνώ Greek: ανιχνεύω Hebrew: סָרַק Hungarian: végigpásztáz Hungarian: átvizsgál Hungarian: végignéz Hungarian: szemügyre vesz Hungarian: átfut Hungarian: átnéz Hungarian: áttekint Hungarian: rápillant Italian: scrutare Latin: percurrō Māori: karapa Māori: tirotiro Māori: matawai Māori: mātai Norman: scanner Portuguese: varrer Romanian: a baleia imaginea Romanian: explora Romanian: scana Romanian: sonda Romanian: scruta Romanian: cerceta Russian: разгля́дывать Spanish: escrutar Swedish: avsöka Swedish: genomsöka Catalan: escorcollar Dutch: afspeuren

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