Meaning

5 senses
  1. A close investigation.

    Of written things, a careful reading.

  2. Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.

  3. An instance of scanning.

    The operators vacated the room during the scan.

    Abtastung, Scan

    скани́рованиеskanírovanije

    an image produced by scanning

  4. The result or output of a scanning process.

    The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.

    Scan

    сканskan

  5. 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.

Examples

100 sentences
  1. My father quickly scanned the newspaper.

    Мій батько швидко пролистав газету. — deniko

    ruМой отец быстро просмотрел газету. — Selena777

    deMein Vater überflog rasch die Zeitung. — al_ex_an_der

  2. Could you scan this for me?

    ruМожешь это для меня отсканировать? — Ooneykcall

  3. Tom scanned the list, but couldn't find his name.

    deTom überflog die Liste, konnte aber seinen Namen nicht finden. — raggione

  4. Tom didn't have much time so he just quickly scanned the report.

  5. I scanned the room.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
instance of scanning:
result or output of a scanning process:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
instance of scanning:

Origin

From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from ear

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”).

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