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单词 scan
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scanverb

uk/skæn/us/skæn/-nn-

scan verb (LOOK)

C2 [ T ] to look at something carefully, with the eyes or with a machine, in order to get information:

She anxiously scanned the faces of the men leaving the train.
Doug scanned the horizon for any sign of the boat.

C1 [ I + adv/prep, T ] to look through a text quickly in order to find a piece of information that you want or to get a general idea of what the text contains:

I scanned through the booklet but couldn't find the address.
Scan the newspaper article quickly and make a note of the main points.

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Using the eyes

  • before your very eyes idiom
  • beheld
  • bore
  • breathe
  • come to sb's attention/notice idiom
  • dart
  • eye
  • feast
  • gawk
  • get a load of that! idiom
  • get him, her, you, etc.! idiom
  • keep tabs on sth/sb idiom
  • look-see
  • observational
  • out of/from the corner of your eye idiom
  • passer-by
  • rest
  • sneak
  • squint
  • visual

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Reading

scan verb (MAKE PICTURE)

C1 [ I or T ] to use a machine to put a picture of a document into a computer, or to take a picture of the inside of something:

I'll just scan the article into the computer.
Volunteers' brains were scanned while they looked at the pictures.
All hand luggage has to be scanned.

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Computer concepts

  • aeroplane mode
  • airplane mode
  • atomicity
  • augmented reality
  • back end
  • clone
  • cloud
  • corruption
  • default to sth
  • electronic
  • gigabyte
  • GUI
  • multimedia
  • reboot
  • template
  • tuple
  • virtual
  • virtually
  • web hosting
  • what you see is what you get idiom

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Copying and copies

scan verb (POEM)

[ I ] specialized literature If a poem or part of a poem scans, it follows a pattern of regular beats:

This line doesn't scan - it has too many syllables.

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Literature

  • alliteration
  • antihero
  • arch-villain
  • baddy
  • ballad
  • bard
  • dramatist
  • epigram
  • hero
  • heroine
  • iambic
  • ingénue
  • limerick
  • poetry
  • prose poem
  • prosody
  • psalm
  • quatrain
  • stylistics
  • tragicomedy

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scannoun

uk/skæn/us/skæn/

[ S ] a careful or quick look through something:

I gave the book a quick scan, and decided not to buy it.

C2 [ C ] a medical examination in which an image of the inside of the body is made using a special machine:

to do a brain scan
to have an ultrasound scan

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Using the eyes

  • before your very eyes idiom
  • beheld
  • bore
  • breathe
  • come to sb's attention/notice idiom
  • dart
  • eye
  • feast
  • gawk
  • get a load of that! idiom
  • get him, her, you, etc.! idiom
  • keep tabs on sth/sb idiom
  • look-see
  • observational
  • out of/from the corner of your eye idiom
  • passer-by
  • rest
  • sneak
  • squint
  • visual

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Medical examination
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