Words That Start With: SCAN

• short underpants for women or children

• lacking in magnitude or quantity

• (of clothing) revealing the body

• disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people

• a disgraceful event

• the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region

• an image produced by scanning

• examine minutely or intensely

• examine hastily

• make a wide, sweeping search of

• conform to a metrical pattern

• move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

• read metrically

• obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

• limit in quality or quantity

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

• someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables

• an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer

• a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area

• a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

• limit in quality or quantity

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

• A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.

• A sheet of stone.

• (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

• A type of underwear worn by men.