Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)scanthe act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region“he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars” (n)scan, CAT scanan image produced by scanning“he analyzed the brain scan”,
“you could see the tumor in the CAT scan” Verbs
(v)scanexamine minutely or intensely“the surgeon scanned the X-ray” (v)scanmake a wide, sweeping search of“The beams scanned the night sky” (v)scanconform to a metrical pattern (v)scanmove a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image (v)scanread metrically“scan verses” (v)read, scanobtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources“This dictionary can be read by the computer”