different between scan vs scansion

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

Etymology

From Late Latin scansi?nem, accusative singular of scansi? (“the act of climbing”), from scand? (“I climb”).

Noun

scansion (countable and uncountable, plural scansions)

1. The rhythm or meter of a line or verse.
2. The act of analysing the meter of poetry.

Verb

scansion (third-person singular simple present scansions, present participle scansioning, simple past and past participle scansioned)

1. (of text) Put into a rhythmic form or meter.
2. (by extension) Impose patterns on.

Related terms

• scan

Translations

Anagrams

• Cansinos

French

Noun

scansion f (plural scansions)

1. scansion (act or instance of scanning poetry)

Related terms

• scander

Further reading

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