| VERB | perception | scan | examine minutely or intensely |
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| perception | scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down | examine hastily | |
| contact | scan | make a wide, sweeping search of | |
| stative | scan | conform to a metrical pattern | |
| motion | scan | move a light beam over | |
| communication | scan | read metrically | |
| cognition | scan, read | obtain data from magnetic tapes | |
| NOUN | act | scan | the act of scanning |
| artifact | scan, CAT scan | an image produced by scanning |
| Sounds | skae'n | |
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| Rhymes | afghan / Afghan ... Yucatan: 118 rhymes with aen... | |
| Meaning | The act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region / region. | |
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| Example | "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars" | |
| Broader | examination, scrutiny | The act of examining something closely (as for mistakes / mistakes) |
| Spanish | exploración, visualización | |
| Catalan | exploració, visualització | |
| Verbs | scan | make a wide, sweeping search of |
| scan | examine minutely or intensely | |
| Meaning | An image produced by scanning. | |
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| Examples |
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| Synonym | CAT scan | |
| Broader | picture, image, icon, ikon | A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface |
| Verbs | scan | examine minutely or intensely |
| Meaning | Examine minutely or intensely. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | The customs agents scan the bags for drugs | |
| Example | "the surgeon scanned the X-ray" | |
| Narrower | glass | Scan (game in the forest / forest) with binoculars |
| Broader | examine, see | observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect |
| Spanish | escandir, escanear, escrutar | |
| Catalan | escandir, examinar amb cura, explorar | |
| Nouns | scan | the act of scanning |
| scan | an image produced by scanning | |
| Meaning | Examine hastily. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" | |
| Synonyms | skim, rake, glance over, run down | |
| Broader | examine, see | observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect |
| Spanish | escudriñar, explorar, hurgar | |
| Catalan | escodrinyar, escorcollar, examinar, explorar, furgar | |
| Meaning | make a wide, sweeping search of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The beams scanned the night sky" | |
| Broader | search | subject to a search |
| Spanish | escrutar | |
| Nouns | scan | the act of scanning |
| scanner | a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | |
| scanner | a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | |
| Meaning | conform to a metrical pattern. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Category | poetry, poesy, verse | literature in metrical form |
| Broader | conform | Be similar, be in line with |
| Meaning | Move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
| Spanish | escanear | |
| Catalan | escanejar | |
| Nouns | scanner | an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer |
| scanning | the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | |
| Meaning | read metrically. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "scan verses" | |
| Broader | declaim, recite | recite in elocution |
| Spanish | escandir | |
| Nouns | scanner | someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables |
| scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns | |
| Meaning | Obtain data from magnetic tapes. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | read | |
| Narrower | misread | read or interpret wrongly |
| Broader | interpret, construe, see | make sense of |
| Spanish | examinar, explorar, leer, recuperar | |
| Catalan | examinar, explorar, llegir | |
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