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scan
1[ skan ]
verb (used with object)
- to glance at or over or read hastily:
to scan a page.
Synonyms:
- to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize.
Synonyms: , ,
- to peer out at or observe repeatedly or sweepingly, as a large expanse; survey.
- to analyze (verse) as to its prosodic or metrical structure; read or recite (verse) so as to indicate or test the metrical form.
- to read (data) for use by a computer or computerized device, especially using an optical scanner.
- Television. to traverse (a surface) with a beam of light or electrons in order to reproduce or transmit a picture.
- Radar. to traverse (a region) with a beam from a radar transmitter.
- Medicine/Medical, Biology. to examine (a body, organ, tissue, or other biologically active material) with a scanner.
verb (used without object)
- to examine the meter of verse.
- (of verse) to conform to the rules of meter.
- Television. to scan a surface or the like.
noun
- an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- a visual examination by means of a television camera, as for the purpose of making visible or relaying pictures from a remote place:
a satellite scan of the dark side of the moon; video scans of property listings available to customers.
- a particular image or frame in such video observation or a photograph made from it.
- Medicine/Medical, Biology.
- examination of the body or an organ or part, or a biologically active material, by means of a technique such as computed axial tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasonography, or scintigraphy.
- the image or display so obtained.
Scan.
2abbreviation for
- Scandinavia.
scan
/ ²õ°ìÊ²Ô /
verb
- tr to scrutinize minutely
- tr to glance over quickly
- tr prosody to read or analyse (verse) according to the rules of metre and versification
- intr prosody to conform to the rules of metre and versification
- tr electronics to move a beam of light, electrons, etc, in a predetermined pattern over (a surface or region) to obtain information, esp either to sense and transmit or to reproduce a television image
- tr to examine data stored on (magnetic tape, etc), usually in order to retrieve information
- to examine or search (a prescribed region) by systematically varying the direction of a radar or sonar beam
- physics to examine or produce or be examined or produced by a continuous charge of some variable
to scan a spectrum
- med to obtain an image of (a part of the body) by means of a scanner
noun
- the act or an instance of scanning
- med
- the examination of a part of the body by means of a scanner
ultrasound scan
a brain scan
- the image produced by a scanner
Derived Forms
- ˲õ³Š²¹²Ô²Ô²¹²ú±ô±ð, adjective
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- un·²õ³Š²¹²Ôîn²¹Â·²ú±ô±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²õ³Š²¹²Ô²Ô±ð»åî adjective
yÐÄvlog History and Origins
yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of scan1
Example Sentences
On Monday, he delivered a positive update in a Parade article, saying his doctors had âcarpet-bombed me for three more treatmentsâ after seeing improvement in a PET scan that was done halfway through chemo.
But the issue is not some club that scans more âcornyâ than cool, a symptom of the moral corruption in Washington but not its cause.
It scans your body to deliver a precise, if impersonal, spa service.
Among the most vital pieces of equipment at Qaradayaâs rehab clinic was a 3D printer used to create plastic masks, along with software used to scan patientsâ faces.
Dani has also spoken to MPs at Westminster, where she discussed other incidents in which she was denied MRI scans in hospital because of similar problems with accessibility.
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