One of the many small hard dermal or epidermal structures that characteristically form the external covering of fishes and reptiles and certain mammals, such as pangolins, A dry thin flake of epidermis shed from the skin, A hard mineral coating that forms on the inside surface of boilers, kettles, and other containers in which water is repeatedly heated, intransitive verb_ To clear or strip of scale or scales, To throw (a thin flat object) so that it soars through the air or skips along the surface of water, To become encrusted

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scale

To look at carefully or thoroughly, especially in search of something; examine, To direct a finely focused beam of light or electrons in a systematic pattern over (a surface) in order to reproduce or sense and subsequently transmit an image, To conform to a metrical pattern, transitive verb_ Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically, To examine quickly, from point to point, in search of something specific, To go over and examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or into; to scrutinize, verb_ To look about for, move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image, examine hastily, noun_ The act or an instance of scanning, the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region, The result or output of a scanning process

Converted to a digital format using a scanner, Seen, looked at, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of scan

A receiver that continuously broadcasts signals it detects from specified radio frequencies, A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium, someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables

Plural form of scanner

Present participle of scan, noun_ the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer, the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission

provoking fear terror, Causing fright or alarm, Easily scared; very timid, noun_ Poor land, having only a thin coat of grass, Prov. Eng. Barren land having only a thin coat of grass

An expected or supposed situation or sequence of events, An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work, A skeleton libretto of a dramatic work, giving the general movement of the plot and the successive appearances of the principal characters

Plural form of scenario