[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to glance at or over or read hastily:to scan a page.Synonyms: skim", "to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize .Synonyms: inspect , investigate , study", "to peer out at or observe repeatedly or sweepingly, as a large expanse; survey .", "to analyze (verse) as to its prosodic or metrical structure; read or recite (verse) so as to indicate or test the metrical form.", "to read (data) for use by a computer or computerized device, especially using an optical scanner optical scanner.", "Television.to traverse (a surface) with a beam of light or electrons in order to reproduce or transmit a picture.", "Radar.to traverse (a region) with a beam from a radar transmitter.", "Medicine/Medical, Biology.to examine (a body, organ, tissue, or other biologically active material) with a scanner ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to examine the meter of verse.", "(of verse) to conform to the rules of meter.", "Television.to scan a surface or the like."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an act or instance of scanning; close examination.", "a visual examination by means of a television camera, as for the purpose of making visible or relaying pictures from a remote place:a satellite scan of the dark side of the moon; video scans of property listings available to customers.", "a particular image or frame in such video observation or a photograph made from it.", "Medicine/Medical, Biology.examination of the body or an organ or part, or a biologically active material, by means of a technique such as computed axial tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasonography, or scintigraphy.the image or display so obtained.", "examination of the body or an organ or part, or a biologically active material, by means of a technique such as computed axial tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasonography, or scintigraphy.", "the image or display so obtained."]}, {"Bold_text": "abbreviation for", "List Items": ["Scandinavia."]}]