Wordie: Scan

Like Flickr, but without the photos.

(v): observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

(v): examine hastily

(v): observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

(v): make a wide, sweeping search of

(v): subject to a search

(v): conform to a metrical pattern

(v): be similar, be in line with

(v): move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

(v): cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense

(v): read metrically

(v): recite in elocution

(v): obtain data from magnetic tapes

(v): make sense of; assign a meaning to

(n): the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region

(n): the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)

(n): an image produced by scanning

(n): a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

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about 1 year ago oroboros said:

Contronymic in the sense: close examination vs. cursory look.

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