Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that scans.
- noun A receiver that continuously broadcasts signals it detects from specified radio frequencies.
- noun An optical scanner.
- noun A device, such as a CT scanner or PET scanner, for observing internal organs, tissues, and other parts of the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
device whichscans documents in order to convert them to adigital medium . - noun A
radio receiver whichiterates through asequence offrequencies to detect signal. - noun A device which uses
radiation (ultrasound ,X-ray , etc.) to generate images oftissue orsurfaces fordiagnostic purposes. - noun A device which uses
optics todetect printeddata (such as abarcode ). - noun One who
scans .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
- noun a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area
- noun a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition
- noun an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rina-the-Arctic-Fox says my scanner is gay xD; I like it, more or less * pats scanner* but with all those white dots it's evil, she's right.
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If the scanner is a flat bottomed scanner, you will probably never get the quality of photo that you want.
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In the banner pic it looks like a scanner is about to make his head explode.
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Indeed, putting yourself through the full-body scanner is the same as subjecting yourself to a strip search.
John W. Whitehead: Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State John W. Whitehead 2010
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Indeed, putting yourself through the full-body scanner is the same as subjecting yourself to a strip search.
John W. Whitehead: Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State John W. Whitehead 2010
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My printer/scanner is in another room, so I scan receipts in bulk once or twice a year.
How Long Do You Need To Keep Tax Documents? | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Their scanner is rf based rather than a laser scanner, so you don't need to dress in something that makes you nearly naked.
tingilinde: 2009
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As an adult I know that the humble barcode scanner is not that mystical anymore!
Archive 2010-01-01 Forest Parks 2010
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Their scanner is rf based rather than a laser scanner, so you don't need to dress in something that makes you nearly naked.
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Some words get translated using circumlocution: a scanner (or scanner in Italian), as in a flatbed scanner, is an apparatus opticus et electronicus ad legendam imaginem: an optical and electronic device for reading images.
The Vatican’s Dictionary of Recent Latinity « The Half-Baked Maker 2010
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