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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English scannen, for *scanden < Old French escandir (“to climb, scan”), from Latin scandō (“I climb”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
scan (third-person singular simple present scans, present participle scanning, simple past and past participle scanned)
- To examine sequentially, part by part.
- She scanned the passage carefully but could not find what she was looking for.
- Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated by Mahadev Desai, Part I, chapter ii:
- 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.
- (computing) To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.
- scan a photograph
- Pencil drawings don't scan very well.
- (computing) To read with an electronic device.
- To look about for.
- He scanned the horizon.
- (poetry) To fit or conform to a specific meter.
- 1998, Milton Acorn, Cedric Smith, James Deahl, editor, The Road to Charlottetown: A Play[1], UnMon Northland:
- 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?
- (obsolete) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- (poetry): scansion
Translations[edit]
examine sequentially
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create a digital copy of an image using a scanner
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look about for
form a poetic metre
Noun[edit]
scan (plural scans)
- An instance of scanning.
- The operators vacated the room during the scan.
- The result or output of a scanning process.
- The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.
Translations[edit]
instance of scanning
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result or output of a scanning process
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- scan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- scan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- scan at OneLook Dictionary Search
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