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Screening vs. Scan — What's the Difference?

Screening vs. Scan — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Screening and Scan

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Screening

Screenings (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Refuse, such as waste coal, separated by a screen.

Scan

To look at carefully or thoroughly, especially in search of something; examine
The sailor scanned the horizon for signs of land.

Screening

The mesh material used to make door or window screens.

Scan

To look over quickly or read hastily
I scanned the newspaper while eating breakfast.

Screening

A presentation of a movie.
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Scan

(Computers)To search (stored data) automatically for specific data.

Screening

A systematic examination or assessment, done especially to detect an unwanted substance or attribute.

Scan

To direct a finely focused beam of light or electrons in a systematic pattern over (a surface) in order to reproduce or sense and subsequently transmit an image.

Screening

(uncountable) Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").
I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.

Scan

To direct a radar beam in a systematic pattern across (a sector of sky) in search of a target.

Screening

The process of checking or filtering.
The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.

Scan

To encode (text, for example) in digital format by means of an optical scanner.

Screening

The showing of a film

Scan

(Medicine)To direct x-rays or other energy at (a body or body part) in order to produce an image, as with a CT scanner.

Screening

The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions

Scan

To pass (luggage, for example) through a detector at a security checkpoint in order to detect weapons or banned materials.

Screening

(in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.

Scan

To analyze (verse) into metrical patterns.

Screening

(soccer) shielding

Scan

To analyze verse into metrical patterns.

Screening

(medicine) A method to identify a disease in a population which is not showing any symptoms of this disease.

Scan

To conform to a metrical pattern
Does this line scan?.

Screening

(volleyball) Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.

Scan

The act or an instance of scanning
My scan of the files.

Screening

Present participle of screen

Scan

The action or process of scanning a body or body part.

Screening

The process of examining or testing objects methodically to find those having desirable properties. See screen{3}.

Scan

An image produced by scanning.

Screening

The display of a motion picture

Scan

(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
She scanned the passage carefully but could not find what she was looking for.

Screening

Fabric of metal or plastic mesh

Scan

(transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
He scanned the horizon.

Screening

The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it;
The cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft

Scan

To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
To scan the hard drive for errors

Screening

Testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics

Scan

To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.

Scan

To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
To scan a photograph
To scan internal organs by means of computed tomography
Pencil drawings don't scan very well.

Scan

To read with an electronic device.
To scan a barcode
To scan a QR code

Scan

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

Scan

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

Scan

(intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.

Scan

Close investigation.

Scan

(computing) An instance of scanning.
The operators vacated the room during the scan.

Scan

(computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.

Scan

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
Nor stayed till she the highest stage had scand.

Scan

Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically.

Scan

To go over and examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or into; to scrutinize.
The actions of men in high stations are all conspicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted.

Scan

To examine quickly, from point to point, in search of something specific; as, to scan an article for mention of a particular person.

Scan

To form an image or an electronic representation of, by passing a beam of light or electrons over, and detecting and recording the reflected or transmitted signal.

Scan

The act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region;
He made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars

Scan

An image produced by scanning;
He analyzed the brain scan
You could see the tumor in the CAT scan

Scan

Examine minutely or intensely;
The surgeon scanned the X-ray

Scan

Examine hastily;
She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi

Scan

Make a wide, sweeping search of;
The beams scanned the night sky

Scan

Conform to a metrical pattern

Scan

Move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

Scan

Read metrically;
Scan verses

Scan

Obtain data from magnetic tapes;
This dictionary can be read by the computer

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