Synonyms for scan
skænscan

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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"

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, 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, 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

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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. Jimmy Carter:

   My most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones. I will continue to receive regular three-week immunotherapy treatments of pembrolizumab.

2. Hadas Ketter-Katz:

   By our results here, our documented results here, some algorithm may be written in order to switch cameras around. It can be two, three multiple cameras, ten cameras, it doesn't matter, with a different scan pattern according to the scan pattern of the chameleons which is proved to be very efficient.

3. Joel Salinas:

   I felt this subtle sensation in my chest and this rising kind of feeling in the shoulders. I recommended a CT scan just to be sure and it later showed she had a blood clot in her lungs, i wouldn’t have been able to pick up on that if it wasn’t for the mirror-touch.

4. John Leddy:

   Mild traumatic brain injury is a category of bran injury that includes concussion, with concussion being at the mildest end of that spectrum. So sports concussion, for example, would be a subset of mild traumatic brain injury, all of the patients in this study received a CT scan to evaluate for brain bleeding or skull fracture and may have had a neurological deficit when they came to the emergency room. While that type of injury can be classified as' mild,' it's a lot more severe than a sport-related concussion typically would be.

5. Colleague Robert Breitbeck:

   We have our Virtobot system with an industrial scanner and with this equipment we can scan the skin with the pattern injury in color and true to scale so we can store it, and later we can combine it with 3D data which the police scans together with us and with this 3D data we have a basis we can do the 3D reconstructions or visualizations of murder cases or traffic accidents.