SCAN
\skˈan], \skˈan], \s_k_ˈa_n]\
Definitions of SCAN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
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read metrically; "scan verses"
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make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
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move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
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an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"
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examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
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examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
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conform to a metrical pattern
By Princeton University
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obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
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glance over or read superficially
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read metrically; "scan verses"
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make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
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move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To examine and divide, as a verse, into the metrical feet or syllables of which it is made up; to look closely at or into; examine carefully.
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To follow metrical rules: said of a verse.
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Scanned.
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Scanning.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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