Synonyms for SCAN
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1. scan

   To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

   Synonyms:
   behold, contemplate, descry, discern, gaze, glance, inspect, look, regard, see, stare, survey, view, watch

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. scannoun

   the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region

   "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"

2. scan, CAT scanverb

   an image produced by scanning

   "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"

   Synonyms:
   scan

3. scanverb

   examine minutely or intensely

   "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"

   Synonyms:
   skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

4. scan, skim, rake, glance over, run downverb

   examine hastily

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

   Synonyms:
   plane, run over, conk out, play out, scan, graze, sap, skim off, skim, skitter, crease, run down, poop out, run out, peter out, exhaust, glance over, check out, cream, rake, cream off, read, skip, skim over, tire

5. scanverb

   make a wide, sweeping search of

   "The beams scanned the night sky"

   Synonyms:
   skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

6. scanverb

   conform to a metrical pattern

   Synonyms:
   skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

7. scanverb

   move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

   Synonyms:
   skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

8. scanverb

   read metrically

   "scan verses"

   Synonyms:
   skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

9. read, scanverb

   obtain data from magnetic tapes

   "This dictionary can be read by the computer"

   Synonyms:
   take, run down, glance over, translate, say, study, show, skim, scan, understand, register, learn, rake, read, record, interpret

Matched Categories

1. • Conform
   • Examination
   • Examine
   • Move
   • Poetry
   • Recite
   • Search

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. scanverb

   Synonyms:
   recite metrically, divide into feet

2. scanverb

   Synonyms:
   scrutinize, examine, investigate, sift, inquire into, look into

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "scan":

   hcan, scanning, scanner, exploration, digitization, digitize, analysis, browsing, sweep, digitisation, unspsc, wiping, digitalization, c.t., digitise, digitizing, scans, scanners, scavenge, navigation, digitising, wipe, scanned

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How to use SCAN in a sentence?

1. Dorie Clark:

   Scan the horizon and look for opportunities and for gaps in what your company is doing compared to what it could be doing, and make suggestions and offer to lead a committee to look into this... the act of suggesting marks you as a leader.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   We talk about technology. Several hundred million dollars for the technology to scan the cars coming through the ports of entry and that is to detect guns, its like an electronic dog almost to detect drugs, guns and contraband.

3. Thomas McKenna:

   For instance, a bipedal robot could be configured to take shipboard measurements, scan for corrosion and leaks, and identify changes to the shape of the room from its original configuration.

4. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum:

   Our work continues to find the graves of our fellow Tulsans who went missing during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, we begin a test excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery to determine what is causing an underground anomaly found by geophysical scanning conducted earlier this year, because the scan is consistent with a mass grave, a team of some of the foremost researchers in the nation have assembled in Tulsa to assess both the presence and the condition of any human remains at the site in question.

5. Radiologist Steffen Ross:

   The first step would be to do the data acquisition which we use a 3D scanner for, we scan the crime scene and we are also able to scan the dead body, if there is a dead body involved, and then we can put all the data together in the computer and create a virtual crime scene, which is a 3D model of the crime scene, so a re-enactment of the crime.