different between scanner vs scunner

English

Etymology

From scan +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?skæn?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skæn?/
• Rhymes: -æn?(?)

Noun

scanner (plural scanners)

1. A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. [from 20th c.]

2. A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
3. A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
4. A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
5. One who scans. [from 16th c.]

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Anagrams

• canners

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English scanner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: scan?ner

Noun

scanner m (plural scanners, diminutive scannertje n)

1. scanner (scanning device)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ska.ne/

Verb

scanner

1. to scan (to create a digital copy of an image using a scanner)

Conjugation

Related terms

• scanneur
• scantrad

Further reading

• “scanner” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English scan +? -er.

Verb

scanner (gerund scann'nie)

1. (Jersey, computing, etc.) to scan

Derived terms

• scanneu (“scanner”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English scanner.

Noun

scanner m (plural scanners)

1. Alternative form of escâner

Spanish

Noun

scanner m (plural scanners or scanner)

1. Alternative spelling of escáner

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots scunner, skunner, from Old Scots skunnyr, skowner (“to shrink back; flinch”), from Middle English skoneren (“to feel sick or disgusted”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative of shun. If so, etymologically shun +? -er (frequentative suffix). Compare also Middle English scurnen (“to flinch”), English scare, English scorn.

Verb

scunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnering, simple past and past participle scunnered)

1. To be sick of.
2. (Northumbria) To dislike.
3. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

Noun

scunner (plural scunners)

1. (Northumbria) Dislike or aversion.
2. (North Yorkshire, derogatory) An urban youth usually associated with trouble or petty crime; a young chav.

Synonyms

• charva, charver (Tyneside dialect)
• chav
• scally

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• cunners

Scots

Verb

scunner (third-person singular present scunners, present participle scunnerin, past scunnert, past participle scunnert)

1. to be very tired, to be knackered