| scan | | |
| n. (act) | 1. scan | the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region.; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars" |
| ~ examination, scrutiny | the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes). |
| n. (artifact) | 2. cat scan, scan | an image produced by scanning.; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" |
| ~ ikon, picture, icon, image | a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" |
| v. (perception) | 3. scan | examine minutely or intensely.; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray" |
| ~ examine, see | observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect.; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" |
| ~ glass | scan (game in the forest) with binoculars. |
| v. (perception) | 4. glance over, rake, run down, scan, skim | examine hastily.; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" |
| ~ examine, see | observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect.; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" |
| v. (contact) | 5. scan | make a wide, sweeping search of.; "The beams scanned the night sky" |
| ~ search | subject to a search.; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" |
| v. (stative) | 6. scan | conform to a metrical pattern. |
| ~ poesy, poetry, verse | literature in metrical form. |
| ~ conform | be similar, be in line with. |
| v. (motion) | 7. scan | move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image. |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (communication) | 8. scan | read metrically.; "scan verses" |
| ~ declaim, recite | recite in elocution. |
| v. (cognition) | 9. read, scan | obtain data from magnetic tapes.; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" |
| ~ construe, interpret, see | make sense of; assign a meaning to.; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" |
| ~ misread | read or interpret wrongly.; "He misread the data" |
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