SCAN Synonyms
There are 21 hypernyms of the word scan. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for SCAN
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examine | verbv | |||||||
verb • consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning • observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect • question or examine thoroughly and closely • question closely • put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | ||||||||
explore | verbv | |||||||
verb • inquire into • travel to or penetrate into • inquire into a subject in detail • examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | ||||||||
inspect | verbv | |||||||
verb • look over carefully • come to see in an official or professional capacity • examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | ||||||||
probe | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities • a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities • an exploratory action or expedition • an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity verb • question or examine thoroughly and closely • examine physically with or as if with a probe | ||||||||
scrutinize | verbv | |||||||
verb • to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail • examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | ||||||||
search | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone • an investigation seeking answers • an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property • the examination of alternative hypotheses • boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas verb • try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of • search or seek • inquire into • subject to a search | ||||||||
survey | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a detailed critical inspection • short descriptive summary (of events) • the act of looking or seeing or observing verb • consider in a comprehensive way • look over carefully or inspect • keep under surveillance • hold a review (of troops) • make a survey of; for statistical purposes • plot a map of (land) | ||||||||
rake | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a dissolute man in fashionable society • degree of deviation from a horizontal plane • a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil verb • move through with or as if with a rake • level or smooth with a rake • sweep the length of • examine hastily • gather with a rake • scrape gently | ||||||||
read | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • something that is read verb • interpret something that is written or printed • have or contain a certain wording or form • look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed • obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources • interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior • interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression • be a student of a certain subject • indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments • audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role • to hear and understand • make sense of a language | ||||||||
skim | verbv | |||||||
noun • a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid • reading or glancing through quickly adjective satellite • used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed verb • travel on the surface of water • move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of • examine hastily • cause to skip over a surface • coat (a liquid) with a layer • remove from the surface • read superficially | ||||||||
cat scan | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • an image produced by scanning | ||||||||
glance over | verbv | |||||||
verb • examine hastily |