Scanning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCANNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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
NOUN:
• close examination
• an act of scanning someone or something
• a medical examination using a scanner
• an image obtained by scanning or with a scanner
• the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer
• the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to examine closely

Words related to SCANNING

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Words that contain SCANNING

scannings12 photoscanning21

How to use SCANNING in a sentence

• They moved at leisure, scanning the distance with hands shading eyes.
• He had been scanning the horizon and his expression was both moody and preoccupied.
• His dark, handsome eyes were bent eagerly upon her as if scanning every nook and corner of her soul.
• Here we remained an hour, firing our guns as a signal, and carefully scanning the whole country with our field glasses.
• Breathlessly he dashed through it and stopped on the opposite side, his eyes eagerly scanning the rock-strewn ridge.
• He stepped to the center of the room, closely scanning each wall and the floor.
• She remained almost constantly at a window of one of the towers, scanning the country, and longing to catch sight of the faithless Roger.
• Where was he going? What was he doing? She paused and looked behind her, scanning the pavement on both sides of the street.
• And suddenly her vista of womanhood narrowed to include the ugly foreground of life that youth had looked over in its eager, far-flung scanning of the horizon beyond.
• I sit high and dry, scanning the horizon for a friendly sail, or waiting for a high tide to set me afloat.
• Only, this time Zita picked up all the papers, arranging them and placing them back in the drawers, after scanning their contents.
• Eagerly scanning the throng of passengers on the upper deck, they suddenly caught view of Clara La Croix.
• The sailors crouched beneath the sails, caring nothing about scanning the ocean.
• Curtis and the boatswain stood by the mast attentively scanning the horizon.
• These facts are not put forth idly in scanning the history of marriage in France.
• She sat down on a box just within the door and looked soberly at him, scanning his face.
• But it struck both, while drifting downward and carefully scanning the shore, as strange that nothing had been seen of Ashman.
• For some time they halted at the back, carefully scanning the position.
• But when he came upon her footprints again, he pulled up and held John Doe to a walk, scanning each bush and boulder as he passed.
• Then I leisurely produced my passport, as if to satisfy a curiosity of my own, and began scanning it.
• In the plate he and his father were scanning, he could see the dots of blue light that identified the nearest scouts, and a moment later the greens of the light cruisers.
• Hastily scanning the crowd about the place, Garrison failed to find his driver.
• He ran it out until the ten feet six inches were unrolled, scanning the figures in the wan light of the new moon.
• I had been scanning the road perhaps for ten minutes when my heart gave a jump and my hand, I am not ashamed to confess, shook on the small telescope.
• He was forever scanning whatever lies hidden within the folds of the heart of childhood.
• With infinite caution, breathing hard from excitement, we slipped along, scanning the top of every tree.
• Finbrink halted in front of his house, scanning the windows.
• Lizzy, scanning their faces, scanning every face in pit or boxes, discerned a good will and wish on each.
• He is scanning the approach to the towers, measuring the walls both from their foundation to the top.
• Her thoughts seemed to be rapidly scanning the past, and there was fear as well as anger in her look.

Similar words containing SCANN without suffix ing

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