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Verb
/skan/,
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scanned, past participle; scanned, past tense; scanning, present participle; scans, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Look at all parts of (something) carefully in order to detect some feature
    • - he raised his binoculars to scan the coast
  2. Look quickly but not very thoroughly through (a document or other text) in order to identify relevant information
    • - we scan the papers for news from the trouble spots
    • - I scanned through the reference materials
  3. Cause (a surface, object, or part of the body) to be traversed by a detector or an electromagnetic beam
    • - their brains are scanned so that researchers can monitor the progress of the disease
  4. Cause (a beam) to traverse across a surface or object
    • - we scanned the beam over a sector of 120°
  5. Resolve (a picture) into its elements of light and shade in a prearranged pattern for the purposes of television transmission

  6. Convert (a document or picture) into digital form for storage or processing on a computer
    • - text and pictures can be scanned into the computer
  7. Analyze the meter of (a line of verse) by reading with the emphasis on its rhythm or by examining the pattern of feet or syllables

  8. (of verse) Conform to metrical principles

Noun
  1. An act of scanning someone or something
    • - a quick scan of the sports page
  2. A medical examination using a scanner
    • - a brain scan
  3. An image obtained by scanning or with a scanner
    • - we can't predict anything until we have seen the scan
  1. examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
  2. the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"
  3. an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"
  4. examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
  5. make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
  6. conform to a metrical pattern
  7. SCAN or Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry is a set of tools created by WHO aimed at diagnosing and measuring mental illness that may occur in adult life. It is not constructed explicitly for use with eiher ICD-10 or DSM-IV but can be used for both systems. ...
  8. In poetry, the meter (or metre) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. The study of metres and forms of versification is known as prosody. ...
  9. The second season of Prison Break, an American serial drama television series, commenced airing in the United States on August 21, 2006 on Mondays at 9:00 pm (EST) on the Fox Broadcasting Company. ...
  10. A scan is an amplitude modulation scan. It gives the information in the form of one dimensional. it is used to detect the presence of flaws in the materials. A-scan ultrasound biometry, commonly referred to as an A-scan, is routine type of diagnostic test used in ophthalmology. ...
  11. (Scanian (linguistics)) Scanian is a closely related group of dialects which formed part of the old Scandinavian dialect continuum, spoken mainly in the province Scania in Southern Sweden. ...
  12. (SCANS) The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) was appointed in 1990 by Lynn Martin, the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor. The commission was made up of 30 business, school, union and parental representatives. ...
  13. An instance of scanning; The result or output of a scanning process; To mount by steps; to go through with step by step; To examine sequentially, part by part; To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner; To look about for; To fit or conform to a specific meter
  14. (Scanning) Using a scanner to digitize images to be manipulated, output or stored on a computer.
  15. (scanning) The process of converting a hard copy into digital data ready for editing and design. The quality of the scan is dependent on the quality of the original, the scanning equipment and software as well as the experience of the operator!
  16. (Scanning) The rapid movement of the electron beam in a pickup device of a camera or in the CRT of a television receiver. It is formatted in a line-for-line manner across the photo sensitive surface which produces or reproduces the video picture. ...
  17. Scanning is the process of skimming text and picking out keywords, sentences and paragraphs while skipping over other parts of a web page. People tend to scan web pages rather than read them word by word. ...
  18. (Scanning) The process of converting a transparency, negative, slide, original or print to a digital file.
  19. (Scanning) A process by which data and maps are converted to digital form using optical or video equipment. Scanning differs from digitizing in that entire pages of data or map sheets are captured as images all at once.
  20. (Scanning) Scanners convert designs into a computer format, allowing the digitizer to use even the most primitive of artwork without recreating the design. ...
  21. (Scanning) The process of moving the electron beam of a pickup tube or a picture tube across the target or screen area of a tube.
  22. (Scanning) A method of data capture whereby an image or map is converted into digital raster form by line-by-line sampling
  23. (Scanning) Going quickly over a text to find a particular piece of information.
  24. (scanning) The process of capturing data in raster format with a device called a scanner. Some scanners also use software to convert raster data to vector data.
  25. Scanning is the process of converting a hard copy paper document into a digital image for use in a computer system. After a document has been scanned, it can be reviewed using field and full-text searching, instant document retrieval, and a complete range of electronic document review options.