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noun
- The result or output of a scan.
- After the was done the doctors looked at the images and made a diagnosis.
verb (scan, n, ing)
- (obsolete): To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
- To examine sequentially, part by part.
- (computing): To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.
- To look about for.
- He scanned the horizon.
- (poetry) To fit or conform to a specific meter.
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noun
- Something or somebody which scans.
- He put the picture in the , then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.
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verb (scintillat, ing)
- (intransitive) To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
- (transitive) To throw off like sparks.
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initialism - Silicon Controlled Rectifier. Thyristor (electronics).
- Senior Common Room (British Universities).
- South Coast Repertory (theater in Costa Mesa, CA)
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noun
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view.
- A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
- The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, "Problems":
- : You won't find me living for the
- The viewing area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- Jones caught the foul up against the .
verb
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing
- The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
- (context, film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
- To fit with a screen.
- We need to this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
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noun
- A diocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop
verb (sees, seeing, saw, seen)
- To perceive with the eyes.
- To perceive or detect as if by sight.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To understand.
- Do you what I mean?
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noun
- (physics) A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator.
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noun
- A servomechanism or servomotor
- Abbreviation of service station, being a place for cars etc to buy petrol and various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.
- Man arrested after allegedly driving car through servo — title of w:Australian Broadcasting Commission, Australian Broadcasting Commission News Radio item, 3 June 2005 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1654443.htm
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noun (abbreviated as servo)
- Any system which controls motion automatically using feedback
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noun
- An indication given to another person.
- (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc) An electrical or electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
- I cannot get a .
- An on-off light or semaphore.
verb (signals, signalling (UK) or signaling (US), signalled (UK) or signaled (US))
- To indicate.
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adjective
- of, related to, or having the electromagnetic, thermodynamic or structural properties of a solid
- (context, of an electronic component) based upon semiconductors
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noun
- The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or molecules; used to prepare a thin layer of material on an object
verb
- (present participle of, sputter)
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verb to squelch (squelches, squelched, squelching)
- (context, transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force
- Even the king"s announcement could not the rumors.
- (transitive) (radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of your receiver.
- (context, intransitive, UK) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground
- The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
- (context, intransitive, UK) to walk or step through a substance such as mud
- The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.
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initialism
- (computing) Server Side Include
- Supplemental Security Income
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noun
- (biochemistry) The material or substance on which an enzyme acts.
- (biology) A surface on which an organism grows or is attached e.g. the rock surface of a rockpool is the substrate for a sessile organism such as a limpet.
- An underlying layer; a substratum.
- (context, linguistics) An indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population.
- (context, plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
- (context, construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
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noun
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A chimney sweep.
- A search (typically for bugs electronic listening devices).
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- Jim will win fifty dollars in the office if Japan wins the World Cup.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
verb (sweeps, sweeping, swept)
- (transitive) To clean (a floor, etc) using a broom or brush.
- (intransitive) To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 236d.
- : has the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (transitive) (ergative) To move something in a particular motion, as a broom
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