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:
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:
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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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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:
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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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scan verb (POEM)
[ I ] specialized literature If a poem or part of a poem scans, it follows a pattern of regular beats:
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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:
C2 [ C ] a medical examination in which an image of the inside of the body is made using a special machine:
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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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