scan

Nouns

• (n) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
  • he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars
• (n) an image produced by scanning
  • he analyzed the brain scan
  • you could see the tumor in the CAT scan
  CAT scan,

Verbs

• (v) examine minutely or intensely
  • the surgeon scanned the X-ray
• (v) examine hastily
  • She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi
  glance over, skim, rake, run down,
• (v) make a wide, sweeping search of
  • The beams scanned the night sky
• (v) conform to a metrical pattern
• (v) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
• (v) read metrically
  • scan verses
• (v) obtain data from magnetic tapes
  • This dictionary can be read by the computer
  read,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity