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to rescan

to rescan

1 3.6
To check something again with a machine to get clearer or updated results
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈskæn/
translation icon : volver a escanear
  • And so they'll do the things knowing that in four months or six months later, I'm likely to rescan them and go, are we doing better?

Examples

  • So I suppose I will delete and rescan the source and then manually identify the episodes.

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  • But this can be a hard decision if it's a large source, taking a long time to rescan.

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  • Could you have Henry rescan the animals?

  • And so they'll do the things knowing that in four months or six months later, I'm likely to rescan them and go, are we doing better?

  • The unfortunate inconvenience for you is we'll have to bring you back in... ... to rescan you so that we can regrow your policy.

  • But on the ballot, the judges are not listed in alphabetical order, so one has to scan and rescan to find the names of the judges you want to vote against.

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  • GB appears to be rescanning a variant of its old arrow style coolers and all of them feature Swin Wukong himself the king.

  • The file reputation is an extension of AVG's "smart scanning," which takes advantage of AVG's behavioral detection network to scan known safe files once and rescan them only if it detects changes.

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  • The technician will rescan the document to improve its resolution and clarity.

  • After the update, I decided to rescan the entire database for any changes.

Synonyms

to rescreen
vsto rescan
  • Specialized
1 4.6

Test or check someone again to find problems missed before

uses a device or software to capture data again for better results
to reimage
vsto rescan
  • Specialized
7.0

To take new pictures or scans to check for changes

focuses on repeating a device capture to improve data or update information

How Clear

to rescan
1 3.6
to scan
258 3.2

Surface Forms

rescan infinitive
rescanned past
rescanned past participle
rescanning present participle
rescans third person singular

Morphology

rescan = scan (transparent) = re + scan

Adding 're-' to 'scan' clearly gives the meaning 'scan again'.

Etymology

The word rescan combines re- 'again' and scan, to look over or use a scanner. To rescan something is to scan it again to get a better or newer result, like pressing the scanner button one more time.