Matching Words
3815 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Scanners
- noun - a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area
- a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition; "they used scanners to monitor police radio channels"
- an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer
- someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
Scanning
- verb - conform to a metrical pattern
- examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
- examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
- make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
- move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
- obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
- read metrically; "scan verses"
- the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
- the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer
Scansion
- noun - analysis of verse into metrical patterns
Scantier
- adjective - lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
Scanties
- noun - short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)
Scantily
- adverb - in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room"
Scanting
- verb - limit in quality or quantity
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
Scantlet
- - A small pattern; a small quantity.
Scaphism
- - An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
Scaphite
- - Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.