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How to pronounce “scan”
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Pronunciation guide for scan
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of scan with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Leadership and the Sexes
scans brain scans that'll show you how
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. [from 16th C.]
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce scan
Leadership and the Sexes
scans brain scans that'll show you how
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “scan”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. [from 16th C.]
- (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly. [from 19th C.]
- (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
- (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.
- (obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
- (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre. [from 14th C.]
- (poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
- [Noun]
- Close investigation. [from 1700s]
- (computing) An instance of scanning.
- (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
- (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.
Practice Nearby Words
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