scan
[verb]
Synonyms:
- glance over, check, check out (informal), examine, eye, look through, run one's eye over, run over, skim
- scrutinize, investigate, scour, search, survey, sweep

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Related Idioms: pass one's eye over
Related Words: perusal, observation, reconnaissance

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. scan¹ /skæn/ verb (past tense and past participle scanned, present participle scanning)
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Late Latin; Origin: scandere, from Latin, 'to climb']

1. LOOK AT [transitive] to examine an area carefully but quickly, often because you are looking for a particular person or thing:
He scanned the horizon, but there was no sign of the ship.
She scanned his face, looking for signs of what he was thinking.
Video cameras scanned the car park.
scan something for something
I scanned the street for people I knew.

2. READ [intransitive and transitive] (also scan through) to read something quickly Synonym : skim
scan something for something
I scanned the page for her name.
She scanned through the paper.

3. SEE INSIDE [transitive] if a machine scans something, it passes an electrical beam over it to form a picture of what is inside it ⇒ scanner:
All luggage has to be scanned at the airport.
They scanned his brain for signs of damage.

4. COMPUTER [transitive] if you scan a document or picture, you put it into a machine attached to a computer so that the information in the document can be taken into the computer and stored there ⇒ scanner
scan something into something
You scan the text into the computer, then edit it.

5. POETRY [intransitive] technical poetry that scans has a correct regular pattern of beats

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. scan² noun

1. [countable] a medical test in which a special machine produces a picture of something inside your body:
The scan showed that she was expecting twins.
a brain scan

2. [singular] when you read something quickly
scan of
a quick scan of the newspapers

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

scan
noun
I. quick look
ADJ. quick, rapid A quick scan of the local paper revealed nothing.
PREP. ~ of

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

scan
II. examination by a machine
ADJ. body, bone, brain | ultrasound | routine
VERB + SCAN have | give sb | take
SCAN + VERB reveal sth A routine scan revealed abnormalities in the foetus.
PREP. ~ of The doctors took a scan of his thigh bone.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

scan
verb
ADV. carefully | quickly, rapidly | anxiously, nervously She scanned the street nervously, looking for the two men.
eagerly
PREP. for I scanned the paper for news.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲