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Scanner vs Scunner - What's the difference?

scanner | scunner |

As nouns the difference between scanner and scunner

is that scanner is while scunner is (the nato reporting name of) the ballistic missile built by the soviet union.

scanner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
    • He put the picture in the scanner , then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.
  • A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
  • A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
  • A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
  • One who scans.

    • Derived terms

    * * full body scanner * millimeter wave scanner * X-ray scanner

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    Anagrams

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    scunner

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be sick of.
  • (Northumbria) To dislike.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northumbria) Dislike or aversion.
  • (Yorkshire, pejorative) North Yorkshire term for an urban youth and usually associated with trouble or petty crime.

    • Usage notes

    Older scunners, i.e. young adults, might be termed (term).

    Synonyms

    * charva, charver (Tyneside dialect) * chav * scally

    References

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    Anagrams

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