scanned

verblook over, scrutinize lightly

Synonyms for scanned

verb look over, scrutinize lightly

Antonyms for scanned

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "mark off verse in metric feet," from Late Latin scandere "to scan verse," originally, in classical Latin, "to climb, rise, mount" (the connecting notion is of the rising and falling rhythm of poetry), from PIE *skand- "to spring, leap, climb" (cf. Sanskrit skandati "hastens, leaps, jumps;" Greek skandalon "stumbling block;" Middle Irish sescaind "he sprang, jumped," sceinm "a bound, jump").

Missing -d in English is probably from confusion with suffix -ed (see lawn (n.1)). Sense of "look at closely, examine minutely (as one does when counting metrical feet in poetry)" first recorded 1540s. The (opposite) sense of "look over quickly, skim" is first attested 1926. Related: Scanned; scanning.

Example Sentences forscanned

The driver faced the bill toward the nearest street-light and scanned it.

Now he scanned the trees on the edge of the clearing with painful anxiety.

He went out to the curbstone and scanned the road for a passing carriage.

I returned on deck, where, leaning on the bulwark, I scanned the distance.

In stolen moments I scanned him with the jealousy of my youth.

She bought several of the illustrated papers, and then scanned the new books.

She saw me, scanned me from head to foot, and did not budge.

The men foregathered curiously about him as he scanned the vessel.

The American turned his binoculars obediently and scanned the west and north.

Often she had scanned Lucia's scrawled programs for the names there.