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How to pronounce scan in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms glance over, rake, run down, skim
Type of see, examine


She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi.
Type Words
Synonyms read
Type of see, construe, interpret
Has types misread
Type Words
Synonyms cat scan
Type of picture, icon, ikon, image


he analyzed the brain scan.
you could see the tumor in the CAT scan.
Type Words
Type of conform
Type Words
Type of see, examine
Has types glass


the surgeon scanned the X-ray.
Type Words
Type of search
Derivation scanner


The beams scanned the night sky.
Type Words
Type of displace, move
Derivation scanner, scanning
Type Words
Type of recite, declaim
Derivation scanner, scansion


scan verses.
Type Words
Type of scrutiny, examination


he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars.

Examples of scan

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You then take that receipt into a 7-Eleven and they scan it and you pay in cash.
From the techcrunch.com
The spinach contamination is equal to one-fifth the radioactivity in a CAT scan.
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Sutter's price for the knee scan was $1,271, payable by Logsdon and his insurer.
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The removable frame can scan oversize books or even a picture hanging on a wall.
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Election supervisors switching to optical-scan ballots are holding their breath.
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Search preferences can also be set to scan prices for a particular grade of gas.
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The data include information on CT scan use, but not on the radiation dose used.
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Both Windows and Mac are supported by the new plug-and-scan offering from Canon.
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It's not something that you can readily or obviously measure without a BMD scan.
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More examples
  • Examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
  • The act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"
  • An image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"
  • Examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
  • Make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
  • Conform to a metrical pattern
  • SCAN or Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry is a set of tools created by WHO aimed at diagnosing and measuring mental illness that may occur in adult life. It is not constructed explicitly for use with eiher ICD-10 or DSM-IV but can be used for both systems. ...
  • In poetry, the meter (or metre) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. The study of metres and forms of versification is known as prosody. ...
  • The second season of Prison Break, an American serial drama television series, commenced airing in the United States on August 21, 2006 on Mondays at 9:00 pm (EST) on the Fox Broadcasting Company. ...