scanner

scanner

See also: Scanner

English

Etymology

    From scan + -er.

    Pronunciation

    • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskænɚ/
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈskænə/
      • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)

    Noun

    scanner (plural scanners)

    1. One who scans. [from 16th c.]
      • 1997, Douglas Robillard, Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint, page 17:
        It is, perhaps, too much to assume that an elderly Melville read James, but he was an eager scanner of magazines and did read fiction in his later years.
    2. A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. [from 20th c.]
      He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.
    3. A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
    4. A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
    5. A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
      • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
        Chorban: I'm using a small scanner to gather readings on the keepers.
        Chorban: So far, I've had mixed results. I find it difficult to get near the creatures.
    6. A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    Translations

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    Anagrams

    Dutch

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English scanner.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈskɛ.nər/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: scan‧ner
    • Rhymes: -ɛnər

    Noun

    scanner m (plural scanners, diminutive scannertje n)

    1. scanner (scanning device)

    French

    Etymology 1

      Adapted borrowing of English scan +‎ -er.

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      scanner

      1. to scan (to create a digital copy of an image using a scanner)
      Conjugation

      Etymology 2

        Borrowed from English scanner. Doublet of scanneur.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /ska.nɛʁ/
        • Audio (France (Strasbourg)):(file)

        Noun

        scanner m (plural scanners) (medicine)

        1. an X-ray scanner

        Further reading

        Italian

        Etymology

          Borrowed from English scanner.

          Pronunciation

          • Audio:(file)

          Noun

          scanner m (invariable)

          1. (computing) scanner

          Norman

          Etymology

          Borrowed from English scan +‎ -er.

          Verb

          scanner (gerund scann'nie)

          1. (Jersey, computing, etc.) to scan

          Derived terms

          Portuguese

          Etymology

          Unadapted borrowing from English scanner.

          Noun

          scanner m (plural scanners)

          1. alternative form of escâner
          2. alternative form of scâner

          Further reading

          Spanish

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /esˈkaneɾ/ [esˈka.neɾ]
            • Rhymes: -aneɾ
          • IPA(key): /ˈskaneɾ/ [ˈska.neɾ]
            • Rhymes: -aneɾ
          • Syllabification: scan‧ner

          Noun

          scanner m (plural scanners)

          1. alternative spelling of escáner

          Further reading

          • Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “scanner”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

          Swedish

          Alternative forms

          Noun

          scanner c

          1. a scanner (e.g. a document scanner or barcode reader)
            Synonym: bildläsare

          Declension

          Declension of scanner
          nominative genitive
          singular indefinite scanner scanners
          definite scannern scannerns
          plural indefinite scannrar scannrars
          definite scannrarna scannrarnas

          References