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To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.

To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.

To look about for; to look over quickly.

To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.

To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.

To read with an electronic device.

(originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.

To conform to a metrical structure.

Close investigation.

(of written things) A careful reading.

(of written things) A cursory reading: a skim.

(computing) An instance of scanning.

(computing) The result or output of a scanning process.

(functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.