scandire — meaning in English

English meaning

• scan verb To look over something quickly, often searching for particular information.
• spell noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.

Senses

scandire is used for these senses in English:

• scan (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre. [from 14th C.]
• spell (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. [from 16th c.]

scan — full definition

1. verb To look over something quickly, often searching for particular information.
2. verb To examine something closely or systematically, especially using a device or medical equipment.
3. verb To convert a physical document or image into digital form using a scanner.
4. noun The result of a scanning process, especially a medical image.

spell — full definition

1. noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
2. verb To write or say the letters that make up a word, in the correct order.
3. verb To indicate or signal that something is likely to happen.
4. noun A short period of time doing a particular activity, or a stretch of a certain kind of weather.

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