different between sonar vs scan

English

Etymology

From SONAR, acronym from sound navigation and ranging. Coined by American scientist Frederick Vinton Hunt in the 1940s.

Pronunciation

Noun

sonar (plural sonars)

1. (nautical) echolocation
2. (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.

Synonyms

• SONAR (acronym of sound navigation and ranging)

Derived terms

• Doppler sonar

Translations

See also

• radar
• lidar
• sodar

Anagrams

• Ras?n, arson, orans, roans, saron, sorna

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan sonar, from Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (“to sound, resound”).

Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sono, past participle sonat)

1. to sound, to make a sound
2. to ring, to buzz

Conjugation

Related terms

• resonar
• so

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (uncountable)

1. sonar

Further reading

• “sonar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sonar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sonar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sonar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: so?nar
• Rhymes: -o?n?r

Noun

sonar m (plural sonars)

1. sonar

Derived terms

• grondsonar
• sonarapparaat
• sonarapparatuur
• sonarhut
• sonarsignaal
• sonarsysteem
• sonarvis

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonars)

1. sonar

Icelandic

Noun

sonar

1. indefinite genitive singular of sonur

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto soni (“to sound”), French sonner, Italian suonare, Spanish sonar, ultimately from Latin son? (“to make a noise”).

Verb

sonar (present tense sonas, past tense sonis, future tense sonos, imperative sonez, conditional sonus)

1. to ring

Conjugation

Occitan

Pronunciation

Verb

sonar

1. to call (to name or refer to)

   Synonyms: cridar, apelar

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonares)

1. (nautical) sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)

Romanian

Etymology

From French sonar

Noun

sonar n (plural sonare)

1. sonar

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?na?r/
• Hyphenation: so?nar

Noun

sòn?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. sonar

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?na?/, [so?na?]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish sonar, from Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (“to sound, resound”).

Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)

1. to sound, to ring
2. to sound (appear)

3. (figuratively) to ring a bell, to be familiar

4. (transitive, reflexive, figuratively) to blow one's nose

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonares)

1. sonar (a device that uses hydrophones to locate objects underwater)

Alternative forms

• sónar

Further reading

• “sonar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Verb

sonar

1. present tense of sona.

Anagrams

• Arons, nosar, sorna

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?. Compare Italian suonare.

Verb

sonar

1. (transitive) to play, sound

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

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