| noun | the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region “he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars” |
| noun | an image produced by scanning “he analyzed the brain scan” |
| verb | examine minutely or intensely “the surgeon scanned the X-ray” |
| verb | examine hastily “She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi” |
| verb | make a wide, sweeping search of “The beams scanned the night sky” |
| verb | conform to a metrical pattern |
| verb | move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image |
| verb | read metrically “scan verses” |
| verb | obtain data from magnetic tapes “This dictionary can be read by the computer” |
| scan | verb | make a wide, sweeping search of |
| scan | noun | an image produced by scanning |
| skim | noun | reading or glancing through quickly |
| skimming | noun | reading or glancing through quickly |
| scanner | noun | a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area |
| scanning | noun | the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer |
| scansion | noun | analysis of verse into metrical patterns |