Definition of Scannings

1. scanning [n] - See also: scanning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scannings

scanned
scanner
scanners
scanning
scanning electron microscope
scanning electron microscopes
scanning electron microscopy
scanning equalization radiography
scanning speech
scanning transmission electron microscope
scanning transmission electron microscopes
scanning transmission electron microscopy
scanning tunneling microscope
scanning tunneling microscopes
scanning tunnelling microscopy
scannings (current term)
scanno
scannos
scanogram
scans
scansion
scansions
scanslation
scansores
scansorial
scant
scant(p)
scanted
scanter
scantest

Literary usage of Scannings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rhythm of Prose: An Experimental Investigation of Individual Difference by William Morrison Patterson (1916)
"The total number of scannings possible from the markings as given by O No. ... The actual number of probable scannings is, of course, much less, ..."

2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1815)
"The leaves of the Sybilline volume of French politics admit of wonderous and portentous scannings. Mr. Pinkney almost universally found the peasantry ..."

3. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1869)
"... she said, who were " overbold with the Almighty, making too many scannings of his blessed will, as lawyers did with human testaments;" and she declared, ..."

4. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"... she said, who were "overbold with the Almighty, making too many scannings of his blessed will, as lawyers did with human testaments ;" and she declared, ..."

5. The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America by William Robertson, John Frost (1856)
"I see many over-bold with God Almighty, making too many subtle scannings of his blessed will. The presumption is so great that I mny not suffer it," &c. ..."

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