scanner

«scanner» in Mova's school dictionary: a machine that copies pictures or pages into a computer — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a scanner, scanners)

meaning for a pupil

1) A scanner is a machine that copies pictures or pages into a computer. tree →

2) A scanner at a shop till reads bar codes to find the price. tree →

3) A scanner in a hospital takes pictures of the inside of the body. tree →

4) A scanner is a machine at airports that checks bags and people. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: supermarket scanners, school scanners, hospital scanners (MRI, CT), airport scanners. Phrases: «bar-code scanner», «body scanner», «put it through the scanner».

examples

• The teacher used the scanner to copy our drawings. tree →
• The checkout scanner beeped. tree →
• At the hospital, she had her head checked in a scanner. tree →
• Put your bag through the scanner, please. tree →
• The scanner reads the price from the bar code. tree →
• We used a phone app as a scanner. tree →

note

Noun from the verb «scan» (double n before -er: scanner).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scanner» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.