Verb
1. examine minutely or intensely;
"the surgeon scanned the X-ray"2. examine hastily;
"She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"3. make a wide, sweeping search of;
"The beams scanned the night sky"4. conform to a metrical pattern
5. move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
6. read metrically;
"scan verses"7. obtain data from magnetic tapes;
"This dictionary can be read by the computer"