Scan vs Descry - What's the difference?
scan | descry | Related terms |
To examine sequentially, part by part.
(computing) To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.
To look about for.
(poetry) To fit or conform to a specific meter.
(obsolete) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
An instance of scanning.
The result or output of a scanning process.
To see.
To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
* Milton
Scan is a related term of descry.
As verbs the difference between scan and descry
is that scan is to examine sequentially, part by part while descry is to see.As a noun scan
is an instance of scanning.scan
English
Verb
(scann)- He scanned the horizon.
Noun
(en noun)- The operators vacated the room during the scan .
- The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.
See also
* pan and scan * scanlate * scanlation * scanlator * scannerExternal links
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* English contranymsdescry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.
- And now their way to earth they had descried .
- When I had passed the vale where my bower stood
- His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.