Spam vs Scan - What's the difference?
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(uncountable, computing, Internet) A collection of unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
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(uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
(countable, rare, computing, Internet) An unsolicited electronic message sent in bulk, usually by email or newsgroups.
(tinned meat product)
(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
(transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
(transitive, by extension, video games) To relentlessly attack an enemy with (a spell or ability).
(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To post the same text repeatedly with disruptive effect; to flood.
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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.
As a proper noun spam
is tinned meat made mainly from ham by hormel foods corporation.As a verb scan is
to examine sequentially, part by part.As a noun scan is
an instance of scanning.spam
English
Noun
citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}
Derived terms
* * * * *Meronyms
* e-mail, emailVerb
(spamm)- Stop spamming that special attack!
See also
* *Official SPAM home page
Anagrams
*Usage notes
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.
