Scan in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Scan

You can make 9 words from 'scan' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'scan'
• 3 letters words from 'scan'
• 2 letters words from 'scan'

4 letters words from 'scan'

CANS 6

SCAN 6

3 letters words from 'scan'

CAN 5	NAS 3
SAC 5	SAN 3

2 letters words from 'scan'

AN 2	AS 2
NA 2

Definitions and meaning of scan

scan

Etymology

From Middle English scannen (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier *scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scandō (“I climb, rise, mount”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Verb

scan (third-person singular simple present scans, present participle scanning, simple past and past participle scanned)

1. (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific meter. [from 14th C.]
   1. (intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.

2. (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. [from 16th C.]
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter ii:

     Yet the incident did not in the least diminish my respect for my teacher. I was by nature blind to the faults of elders. Later I came to know of many other failings of this teacher, but my regard for him remained the same. For I had learnt to carry out the orders of elders, not to scan their actions.

3. (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly. [from 19th C.]
   1. (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyze or go over, often to find something.

   2. (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
4. (computing, transitive) To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.

5. (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.

6. (obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

Usage notes

• The contranym status of the word is discussed at peruse § Usage notes.

Derived terms

• forescan

Related terms

• (poetry): scansion

Translations

Noun

scan (plural scans)

1. Close investigation. [from 1700s]
2. (computing) An instance of scanning.

3. (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.

Translations

See also

• pan and scan
• scanlate
• scanlation
• scanlator
• scanner

Further reading

• “scan” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2020.
• scan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scan in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• scan at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ANCs, CNAs, CNSA, NCSA, NSCA, cans

Source: wiktionary.org

• SCAMSTER, one who perpetrates scams.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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