SCANNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scanner mean? 

• SCANNER (noun)
  The noun SCANNER has 4 senses:

1. someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables

2. an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer

3. a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area

4. a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition

  Familiarity information: SCANNER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCANNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("scanner" is a kind of...):

reader; referee; reviewer (someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication)

Derivation:

scan (read metrically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

digital scanner; image scanner; scanner

Hypernyms ("scanner" is a kind of...):

data input device; input device (a device that can be used to insert data into a computer or other computational device)

electronic device (a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically)

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

A radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scanner" is a kind of...):

dish; dish aerial; dish antenna; saucer (directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation)

Derivation:

scan (make a wide, sweeping search of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

electronic scanner; scanner

Context example:

they used scanners to monitor police radio channels

Hypernyms ("scanner" is a kind of...):

detector (electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity)

Derivation:

scan (make a wide, sweeping search of)

 Context examples 

Neuroendocrine tumor cells take up the radioactive iobenguane and are detected by a scanner.

(Iobenguane scan, NCI Dictionary)

It collects in the liver, especially in abnormal areas, and can be detected by the scanner.

(Liver scan, NCI Dictionary)

But, when they tuned the scanner differently, the blood vessels disappeared, and the researchers saw that dura also contained smaller but almost equally bright spots and lines which they suspected were lymph vessels.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)

Neuroendocrine tumor cells take up the radioactive metaiodobenzylguanidine and are detected by a scanner.

(Metaiodobenzylguanidine scan, NCI Dictionary)

CT (Computerized (Axial) Tomography) scanner is a special kind of machine which directs a series of X-ray pulses through the body, to produce detailed pictures of internal body structures.

(CT Scanner, NCI Thesaurus)

A DXA scanner produces 2 X-ray beams, each with different energy levels.

(Dual x-ray absorptiometry, NCI Thesaurus)

When radioactive material is used to examine the thyroid with a scanner, nodules that collect more radioactive material than the surrounding thyroid tissue are considered "hot."

(Hot nodule, NCI Dictionary)

The gallium is taken up by rapidly dividing cells in the bones, tissues, and organs and is detected by a scanner.

(Gallium scan, NCI Dictionary)

A PET scanner is used to detect which cells in the body have taken up fluorine F 18 fluoromethylcholine.

(fluorine F 18 fluoromethylcholine, NCI Dictionary)

The usual mode of scanner operation in which a tracer's distribution throughout a subject is detected for subsequent processing into an image.

(Emission scan, NCI Thesaurus)