Noun

• S: (n) scan (the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region) "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"
• S: (n) scan, CAT scan (an image produced by scanning) "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) scan (examine minutely or intensely) "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) scan [Related to: scan] (an image produced by scanning) "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"
• W: (n) scan [Related to: scan] (the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region) "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down (examine hastily) "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
• S: (v) scan (make a wide, sweeping search of) "The beams scanned the night sky"
• S: (v) scan (conform to a metrical pattern)
• S: (v) scan (move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image)
• S: (v) scan (read metrically) "scan verses"
• S: (v) read, scan (obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources) "This dictionary can be read by the computer"