Word Meanings - SCAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To mount by steps; to go through with step by step. Nor stayed till she the highest stage had scand. Spenser. 2. Specifically , to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading,

Additional info about word: SCAN

1. To mount by steps; to go through with step by step. Nor stayed till she the highest stage had scand. Spenser. 2. Specifically , 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. 3. To go over and examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or into; to scrutinize. The actions of men in high stations are all conspicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted. Atterbury.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCAN)

• Behold
• Look
• discern
• regard
• view
• descry
• look upon
• gaze
• contemplate
• observe
• see
• scan
• survey
• Criticise
• Examine
• perpend
• analyze
• discuss
• anatomize
• animadvert
• Gaze
• Stare
• behold
• glower
• gloat
• Survey
• Scan
• inspect
• reconnoitre
• overlook
• scrutinize
• examine
• superintend
• review

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCAN)

• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Discard
• dismiss
• skim
• misexamine

Related words: (words related to SCAN)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• ANATOMIZE
  1. To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts. 2. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. If we anatomize all other reasonings of this
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• REVIEW
  Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• BEHOLDING
  Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• ANALYZER
  The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, analyzes.
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• BEHOLDINGNESS
  , The state of being obliged or beholden. Sir P. Sidney.
• INSPECTIVE
  Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.
• DISCERNINGLY
  In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• SEPIOSTARE
  The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• PERPENDICULAR
  At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early