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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. scan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. scan: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. scan: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. Scan: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. scan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. scan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. scan: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. scan, scan: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. scan (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. scan: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. scan: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Scan (Newspaper), Scan (Prison Break episode), Scan (poetry), Scan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  13. Scan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. scan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. scan: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. Scan (m), scan, scan (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. scan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. scan: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. scan: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. scan: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  21. scan: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  22. scan: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  23. scan: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scan: Global Glossary [home, info]
  2. SCAN: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
  3. scan-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]
  4. SCAN: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCAN, scan: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. scan: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [home, info]
  3. scan: Webopedia [home, info]
  4. scan: Hacking Lexicon [home, info]
  5. scan: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. scan: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Scan: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  3. scan: Technical and Popular Medical Terms [home, info]
  4. SCAN, scan: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  5. scan: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary [home, info]
  6. Scan: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms [home, info]
  7. scan: Dictionary of Cancer Terms [home, info]
  8. scan: Medical dictionary [home, info]
  9. Scan: Drug Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  10. scan: Hyperdictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCAN: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  2. SCAN: AbbreviationZ [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scan: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scan: The Folk File [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCAN: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING [home, info]
  2. Scan: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  3. scan: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]
  4. Scan: Data Acquisition [home, info]
  5. SCAN: Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon [home, info]
  6. scan: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

Quick definitions (scan)

noun:  the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region ("He made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars")
noun:  an image produced by scanning ("He analyzed the brain scan")
verb:  examine hastily ("She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi")
verb:  examine minutely or intensely ("The surgeon scanned the X-ray")
verb:  conform to a metrical pattern
verb:  read metrically ("Scan verses")
verb:  make a wide, sweeping search of ("The beams scanned the night sky")
verb:  move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
verb:  obtain data from magnetic tapes

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Phrases that include scan:   progressive scan, gallium scan, a scan, computed tomography scan, scan path, more...

Words similar to scan:   read, rake, scannable, scanned, scanning, skim, browse, examine, eye, glance over, peruse, run down, scrutinize, survey, more...


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