Scan is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCAN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to examine closely
• look at all parts of (something) carefully in order to detect some feature
• look quickly but not very thoroughly through (a document or other text) in order to identify relevant information
• cause (a surface, object, or part of the body) to be traversed by a detector or an electromagnetic beam
• cause (a beam) to traverse across a surface or object
• convert (a document or picture) into digital form for storage or processing on a computer
• resolve (a picture) into its elements of light and shade in a prearranged pattern for the purposes of television transmission.
• analyse the metre of (a line of verse) by reading with the emphasis on its rhythm or by examining the pattern of feet or syllables.
• (of verse) conform to metrical principles
• scrutinize carefully
• To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
• examine minutely or intensely
• examine hastily
• make a wide, sweeping search of
• conform to a metrical pattern
• move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
• read metrically
• obtain data from magnetic tapes
NOUN:
• an act of scanning someone or something
• a medical examination using a scanner
• an image obtained by scanning or with a scanner
• the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
• an image produced by scanning
• scanning

Words related to SCAN

archaic14 scand8 scannable13 scanned10 scanning11 scannings12 scans7

How to use SCAN in a sentence

• A copy of them lies before me now, and even at this day, when I scan again the plan of march, I do not see how it could be improved.
• Turning myself towards the right I could scan nearly the whole length of the Avenue de Neuilly.
• He paused long enough to let me scan a newspaper which he had, from which I learned of the capitulation of the French at Sedan.
• It gave me a lookout from which to scan the ocean for ships, and increased the likelihood of my island being sighted by the careless roving eye of any seaman.
• There are whose kind inquiries scan Your total kindred, man by man, Son, brother, cousin joining.
• He did not seem at all pleased to have been disturbed, until he drew near enough to scan our faces.
• Just as regularly her husband would take a pair of opera-glasses and in the Rue de la Paix hopefully scan the sky.
• And I go up from time to time to scan the ground, so that it may be very accurate and therefore rather useful.
• Letourneur stood watching Curtis as he continued eagerly to scan the western horizon.
• The fire-light enabled me to scan the appearance of my new acquaintance.
• When we scan the circumstances more closely, we find distinct evidence of some reason for his confidence.
• Let us scan the ground on which he held this belief.
• The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.
• He would walk from port to starboard, glance forrard and aft, peer at the wide crescent of the starlit sea, stroll back to port, and again scan ship and horizon.
• The resulting scan sent a sudden chill down his spine.
• Andre-Louis, turning to scan that muffled figure, advanced from the dark depths of the salon.
• Yet stood the youth there, ruddy in the flare Of his vast shield, nor spake, nor quailed, gazed up, As one might scan a mountain to be scaled.
• She beheld Jarvis pacing up and down the hall, and as she looked saw him take his watch out and scan its face as if he had an appointment to keep.
• Frequently the two would stop and scan the openings for signs of life.
• So after a little he took down the glasses to scan the country as a whole.
• He took the first turn to the left, and began to count the houses and scan their numbers.
• And sometimes he would leave his boat in a creek, and climb some adjacent height, from whence he could scan the surface of the lake, and see what was stirring there.

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