Last Updated：2025/11/20

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

scan

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Source Word

scan

IPA(Pronunciation)

/skæn/

Verb

transitive obsolete intransitive

Japanese Meaning

順番にまたは注意深く対象を検査・調査すること / 詳細にわたって対象を確認する、綿密に観察すること / （コンピュータ分野で）データなどを読み込み解析すること

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Please scan each page of the contract for any hidden clauses before signing.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

署名する前に契約書の各ページを慎重に精査して、隠れた条項がないか確認してください。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.

She scanned the passage carefully but could not find what she was looking for.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.

to scan the hard drive for errors

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.

Sense（4）

(computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.

to scan a photograph

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（5）

(computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.

to scan a barcode

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Sense（6）

(obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan, / There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain,— / Morat ! the proud, the patriot field ! where man / May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain,[…]

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（7）

(poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.

Sense（8）

(intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.

scans

（ present singular third-person ）

scanning

（ participle present ）

scanned

（ participle past ）

scanned

（ past ）

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