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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/#m4)

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

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scanner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.