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scan

verb

1 Adam scanned the horizon | his eyes were scanning her face:

study, examine, scrutinize, inspect, survey, search, scour, sweep, rake;

look at, look someone/something up and down, stare at, gaze at, eye, watch, contemplate, regard;

take stock of;

Hunting glass;

informal check out, recce;

North American, informal scope;

archaic con.

2 he pulled out a leather-bound diary and scanned the pages:

glance through/over, look through/over, have a look at, run/pass/cast one's eye over, skim, flick through, flip through, riffle through, leaf through, thumb through, read quickly, browse through;

peruse.

▷antonyms pore over.

noun

1 a careful scan of the terrain:

inspection, scrutiny, examination, survey, search.

2 a quick scan through the ‘For Sale’ pages:

glance, look, flick, browse, skim.

3 a brain scan:

examination, screening;

ultrasound (scan).

scan Oxford Dictionary of English