scan

1. (v) (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. 2. (v) (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something. 3. (v) (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly. 4. (v) (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner. 5. (v) (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device. 6. (v) (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize. 7. (n) A close investigation. 8. (n) Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim. 9. (n) Of written things, a careful reading. 10. (n) (computing) An instance of scanning. 11. (n) (computing) The result or output of a scanning process. 12. (v) (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre. 13. (v) (poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure. 14. (n) (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results. 15. (v) (obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.