scan
Forms
- present (v1)
- scan
- past (v2)
- scanned
- past participle (v3)
- scanned
- present participle
- scanning
- 3rd person singular
- scans
- Plural
- scans
Definitions
1.To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- She scanned the passage carefully but could not find what she was looking for.
- Slowly, he scanned the horizon, listening, watching for the signs he had been taught.
2.To look about for; to look over quickly.
3.To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
- Pencil drawings don't scan very well.
4.To read with an electronic device.
1.A close investigation.
2.An instance of scanning.
- The operators vacated the room during the scan.
3.The result or output of a scanning process.
- The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.
4.A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4211
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”)
From earlier scanden
From Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”)
From Classical Latin scandō (“to climb, rise, mount”)
From Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”).