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  1. transitive verb To examine closely.
  2. transitive verb To look over quickly and systematically: scanning the horizon for signs of land.
  3. transitive verb To look over or leaf through hastily: scanned the newspaper while eating breakfast.
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  • One, I can fire a freaking laser at it, which I have already done, to do a 3D scan -- there's a 3D scan of this Falcon. —  Adam Savage's obsessions
  • I was in a doctor's office last CAT scan, and there was a Reader's Digest, October 2002. —  Anna Deavere Smith's American character
  • Go to the “about this book” page for the scan, and look in the lower regions to see if there is an “Other editions” section.
  • The Scanning Machine on Another Platform Using a platform other than UNIX to perform a scan is another matter. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 9 -- Scanners
  • Once the scan is finish, the registry cleaner program will display all that is wrong with your registry. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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imaging ·  scanner ·  monitor ·  sensor ·  surveillance ·  measurement ·  transmission ·  survey ·  probe ·  analysis ·  detection ·  reading

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scan:   scanning ·  scans ·  scanned
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English scanden, scannen, to scan a verse, from Latin scandere, to climb, scan a verse; see skand- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also skan, scanne; from Middle English scannen, for *scanden, from Old French escander, exandir, climb (also scan?), French scander (later D. scanderen = German scandiren = Swedish skandera = Danish skandere), scan, = Italian scandere, climb, scan, from Latin scandere, climb (scandere versus, measure or read verse by its feet, scan), = Sanskrit ✓ skand, spring, ascend. From the L. scandere are also ult. English scansion, scansorial, etc., ascend, descend, condescend, transcend, and (through the deriv. scala) scale, escalade, etc.
 

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