Betekenis van scan In het Nederlands

• 0 to look at something carefully, with the eyes or with a machine, in order to get information:

  • She anxiously scanned the faces of the men leaving the train.

  • Doug scanned the horizon for any sign of the boat.

  • I scanned through the booklet but couldn't find the address.

  • Scan the newspaper article quickly and make a note of the main points.

• 1 to use a machine to put a picture of a document into a computer, or to take a picture of the inside of something:

  • I'll just scan the article into the computer.

  • Volunteers' brains were scanned while they looked at the pictures.

  • All hand luggage has to be scanned.

• 2 If a poem or part of a poem scans, it follows a pattern of regular beats:

  • This line doesn't scan - it has too many syllables.

• 3 a careful or quick look through something:

  • I gave the book a quick scan, and decided not to buy it.

  • to do a brain scan

  • to have an ultrasound scan

• 4 to examine something carefully:

  • [ I ] This technique is used to scan for defective genes.

  • [ T ] A little hand-held device beeps as soon as it has scanned a bar code.

  • [ T ] I scanned a few pages of the book and thought it looked interesting.

• 5 the act of looking at or through something carefully or quickly:

  • A quick scan of my calendar shows that I’m pretty busy this week.

  • a security scan of passengers’ bags

  • a medical scan of the head

• 6 to use a piece of electronic equipment to get information from something such as a bank card or a product's barcode:

  • The barcode is scanned to get the price of the product.

• 7 to use a machine to make a copy of a document or picture and put it into a computer:

  • He scanned the document and emailed it to the head office.

• 8 to look through a text quickly in order to find a piece of information that you want or to get a general idea of what it is about:

  • I scanned the article looking for details, but didn't find anything.

• 9 a picture of a document that has been put into a computer:

  • The machine received a good score for its color scans.

• 10 a quick look through something, especially in order to check that it is good enough:

  • Can you give this letter a quick scan?