What is another word for scanning?

Pronunciation: [skˈanɪŋ] (IPA)

The word scanning can be used in a variety of contexts to describe different types of activities. Some synonyms for scanning include searching, examining, scrutinizing, surveying, perusing, inspecting, and reviewing. When searching for information, one might scan through documents, books, or websites. To examine something closely, you might use a scanner or a magnifying glass. When surveying an area or crowd, you might use a drone or binoculars. To inspect a machine or vehicle, you might use a checklist or diagnostic tool. Finally, when reviewing a proposal, report, or manuscript, you might use a red pen or highlighter to mark errors or make suggestions.

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Usage examples for Scanning

Presently he seemed to wake with a start and looked back along the narrow, steep path, and up to the overhanging edge of the bluff, scanning it closely.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
His wife was not a beautiful woman, but his lover's eyes endowed her with every beauty as she lay scanning the tree-clad mountains.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
After scanning the lonely figure, with sharp eyes he pulled up.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse

Famous quotes with Scanning

  • The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
    Mike Marsh
  • We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • It has ever been held the highest wisdom for a man not merely to submit to Necessity,—Necessity will make him submit,—but to know and believe well that the stern thing which Necessity had ordered was the wisest, the best, the thing wanted there. To cease his frantic pretension of scanning this great God's-World in his small fraction of a brain; to know that it had verily, though deep beyond his soundings, a Just Law, that the soul of it was Good;—that his part in it was to conform to the Law of the Whole, and in devout silence follow that; not questioning it, obeying it as unquestionable.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
    Dan Simmons
  • The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.
    E. O. Wilson

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