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Antonyms for scan
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  1. scan

    To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

    Synonyms:
    behold, contemplate, descry, discern, gaze, glance, inspect, look, regard, see, stare, survey, view, watch

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. scannoun

    the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region

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

  2. scan, CAT scanverb

    an image produced by scanning

    "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"

  3. scanverb

    examine minutely or intensely

    "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"

    Synonyms:
    skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

  4. scan, skim, rake, glance over, run downverb

    examine hastily

    "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"

    Synonyms:
    plane, run over, conk out, play out, graze, sap, skim off, skim, skitter, crease, run down, poop out, run out, peter out, exhaust, glance over, check out, cream, rake, cream off, read, skip, skim over, tire

  5. scanverb

    make a wide, sweeping search of

    "The beams scanned the night sky"

    Synonyms:
    skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

  6. scanverb

    conform to a metrical pattern

    Synonyms:
    skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

  7. scanverb

    move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

    Synonyms:
    skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

  8. scanverb

    read metrically

    "scan verses"

    Synonyms:
    skim, rake, read, run down, glance over

  9. read, scanverb

    obtain data from magnetic tapes

    "This dictionary can be read by the computer"

    Synonyms:
    take, run down, glance over, translate, say, study, show, skim, understand, register, learn, rake, read, record, interpret

How to use scan in a sentence?

  1. David Miller:

    My God turns evil to good, because of this, I got a CT scan in my head to make sure he didn’t do any real damage. Because of that, they found a small, benign tumor that will get treated at an early stage.

  2. Deborah Favors:

    He didn't have any feeling in his legs. He had feeling in his arm and upper body, as soon as we got a( CT) scan, they said he broke( vertebrates) 3-4-5 and they rushed him up to surgery.

  3. An Ohio doctor:

    What was I to this world if not a beacon of light shining upon those who couldn’t scan the internet for their own hilarious and entertaining comic relief? i guess what I am trying to say is that you’re welcome and you owe me big time.

  4. Robyn Meija:

    My husband took the ticket to the store to scan it, just to be sure it was real, we also asked my brother-in-law to come over and scan it on the Maryland Lottery.Meija Lottery app.

  5. Matthew Varisco:

    It's like 3D cameras. As opposed to taking hundreds and hundreds of still pictures, we're going to scan the entire room, that way it's almost like a virtual reality. We can take that scene later, go back and look at the computer and look at it in extreme detail.

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