<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page</li><li>to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize</li><li>to peer out at or observe repeatedly or sweepingly, as a large expanse; survey</li><li>to analyze (verse) as to its prosodic or metrical structure; read or recite (verse) so as to indicate or test the metrical form</li><li>to read (data) for use by a computer or computerized device, especially using an optical scanner</li><li>to traverse (a surface) with a beam of light or electrons in order to reproduce or transmit a picture</li><li>to traverse (a region) with a beam from a radar transmitter</li><li>to examine (a body, organ, tissue, or other biologically active material) with a scanner</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to examine the meter of verse</li><li>(of verse) to conform to the rules of meter</li><li>to scan a surface or the like</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of scanning; close examination</li><li>a visual examination by means of a television camera, as for the purpose of making visible or relaying pictures from a remote place</li><li>a particular image or frame in such video observation or a photograph made from it</li><li>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</li><li>the image or display so obtained</li></ul>