(~s, ~ning, ~ned)
1.
When you ~ written material, you look through it quickly in order to find important or interesting information.
She ~ned the advertisement pages of the newspapers...
I haven’t read much into it as yet. I’ve only just ~ned through it.
VERB: V n, V through n
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Scan is also a noun.
I just had a quick ~ through your book again.
N-SING
2.
When you ~ a place or group of people, you look at it carefully, usually because you are looking for something or someone.
The officer ~ned the room...
She was nervous and kept ~ning the crowd for Paul...
He raised the binoculars to his eye again, ~ning across the scene.
VERB: no passive, V n, V n for n, V prep
3.
If people ~ something such as luggage, they examine it using a machine that can show or find things inside it that cannot be seen from the outside.
Their approach is to ~ every checked-in bag with a bomb detector.
VERB: V n
~ning
...routine ~ning of luggage.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If a computer disk is ~ned, a program on the computer checks the disk to make sure that it does not contain a virus. (COMPUTING)
The disk has no viruses–I’ve ~ned it already.
VERB: V n
5.
If a picture or document is ~ned into a computer, a machine passes a beam of light over it to make a copy of it in the computer. (COMPUTING)
The entire paper contents of all libraries will eventually be ~ned into computers...
Designs can also be ~ned in from paper.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed into/onto n, be V-ed in/on
6.
If a radar or sonar machine ~s an area, it examines or searches it by sending radar or sonar beams over it.
The ship’s radar ~ned the sea ahead.
VERB: V n
7.
A ~ is a medical test in which a machine sends a beam of X-rays over a part of your body in order to check that it is healthy.
He was rushed to hospital for a brain ~.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
8.
If a pregnant woman has a ~, a machine using sound waves produces an image of her womb on a screen so that a doctor can see if her baby is developing normally.
N-COUNT
9.
If a line of a poem does not ~, it is not the right length or does not have emphasis in the right places to match the rest of the poem.
He had written a few poems. Sid told him they didn’t ~.
VERB: usu with brd-neg, V