• noun:   the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region

  Example: "He made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"

• noun:   an image produced by scanning

  Example: "He analyzed the brain scan"

• verb:   examine hastily

  Example: "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"

• verb:   examine minutely or intensely

  Example: "The surgeon scanned the X-ray"

• verb:   conform to a metrical pattern
• verb:   read metrically

  Example: "Scan verses"

• verb:   make a wide, sweeping search of

  Example: "The beams scanned the night sky"

• verb:   move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
• verb:   obtain data from magnetic tapes

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