different between rollup vs scan

English

Alternative forms

• roll-up
• roll up

Etymology

From the verb phrase roll up.

Noun

rollup (plural rollups)

1. A kind of food made by wrapping ingredients in another food, e.g. fajitas.

   She ate a chicken rollup and a salad.

2. A kind of flat, pectin-based, fruit-flavored snack rolled into a tube.
3. A self-made cigarette of tobacco and rolling paper.

   Synonym: rollie

   I smoke rollups because they are cheaper than buying cigarettes.

4. A business technique where multiple small companies in the same market are acquired and merged.
5. (computing) A collection of software updates distributed as a single package.
   • 2014, Michel de Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration

     Between issuance of service packs, Microsoft released update rollups for Exchange Server on a regular basis […]

6. That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.

Translations

Anagrams

• uproll

English

Etymology

From Middle English scannen (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier *scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scand? (“I climb, rise, mount”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Verb

scan (third-person singular simple present scans, present participle scanning, simple past and past participle scanned)

1. (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. [from 16th C.]
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter ii:

     Yet the incident did not in the least diminish my respect for my teacher. I was by nature blind to the faults of elders. Later I came to know of many other failings of this teacher, but my regard for him remained the same. For I had learnt to carry out the orders of elders, not to scan their actions.
2. (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly. [from 19th C.]
   1. (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyze or go over, often to find something.

   2. (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
3. (computing, transitive) To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.

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

5. (obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
6. (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific meter. [from 14th C.]
   1. (intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.

Usage notes

• The contranym status of the word is discussed at peruse § Usage notes.

Derived terms

• forescan

Related terms

• (poetry): scansion

Translations

Noun

scan (plural scans)

1. Close investigation. [from 1700s]
2. (computing) An instance of scanning.

3. (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.

Translations

See also

• pan and scan
• scanlate
• scanlation
• scanlator
• scanner

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “scan”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• scan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• scan at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ANCs, CNAs, CNSA, NCSA, NSCA, cans