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# scanner

noun (a scanner, scanners)

«scanner» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A scanner is a machine that copies pictures or pages into a computer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#m1)
2. A scanner at a shop till reads bar codes to find the price. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#m2)
3. A scanner in a hospital takes pictures of the inside of the body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#m3)
4. A scanner is a machine at airports that checks bags and people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#m4)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#x1)
- The checkout scanner beeped. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#x2)
- At the hospital, she had her head checked in a scanner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#x3)
- Put your bag through the scanner, please. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#x4)
- The scanner reads the price from the bar code. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#x5)
- We used a phone app as a scanner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «scanner» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«scanner» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/scanner.html) on Mova free.