different between scan vs regard

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

English

Alternative forms

• regarde, reguard, reguarde (all obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??????d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??????d/
• Hyphenation: re?gard
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard, reward, guardian, and so on.

Noun

regard (countable and uncountable, plural regards)

1. (countable) A steady look, a gaze. [from 15th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750:

     He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.

2. One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. [from 16th c.]
3. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. [from 16th c.]
   • 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:

     This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]

   • 1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399:

     These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.

4. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.

   Synonyms: esteem, repute

   He is held in great regard in Whitehall.

Derived terms

• disregard
• in regard
• in regard of
• in regard to
• with regard to

Synonyms

• consideration, onlook, respect

Antonyms

• (concern for another): neglect

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English regarden, from Old French regarder, reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.

Verb

regard (third-person singular simple present regards, present participle regarding, simple past and past participle regarded)

1. To look at; to observe. [from 16th c.]

2. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. [from 16th c.]
   • , [Act V, scene iv]:

     Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, / Your neece regards me with an eye of fauour.
3. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive) To face toward.
5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern. [from 17th c.]
6. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect. [from 16th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 18:2:

     Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.

Derived terms

• regardable
• regarder
• regardless
• self-regarding

Synonyms

• (to look at): See Thesaurus:look
• (to consider): See Thesaurus:deem
• (to take notice of): See Thesaurus:pay attention

Antonyms

• ignore
• neglect

Translations

Anagrams

• Drager, Gerard, Grader, grader, red rag, redrag

French

Etymology

From Middle French regard, from Old French regard, from reguarder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a?/

Noun

regard m (plural regards)

1. look, glance

2. (uncountable) sight, gaze, eyes
   • 1885, Loreau, Heriette (trans.), L’Ami commun (Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens), Part IV, chapter 10:

3. manhole

Related terms

• regarder

Further reading

• “regard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• garder, Gérard

Old French

Alternative forms

• regart, resgard, resgart, regarde

Noun

regard m (oblique plural regarz or regartz, nominative singular regarz or regartz, nominative plural regard)

1. look; observance; watching (act, instance of looking at)

Descendants

• Middle French: regard
  • ? Middle English: regard, regarde
    • English: regard

References

• regard on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub