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detect - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of.
- transitive verb To discern (something hidden or subtle).
- transitive verb To learn something hidden and often improper about.
- transitive verb Electronics To demodulate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To uncover; lay bare; expose; show.
- To discover; find out; ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of: as, to
detect an error in an account; to detect the presence of arsenic. - To find out the action or character of; discover a fault or wrong in; unveil, as a person: as, to
detect a man in the act of cheating; to detect a hypocrite. - To reveal the guilt or alleged guilt of; inform against; complain of; accuse.
- Synonyms To find, ascertain, descry, make out, ferret out, penetrate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Detected.
- transitive verb To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light
- transitive verb obsolete To inform against; to accuse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
discover orfind bycareful search ,examination , orprobing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English detecten, from Latin dētegere, dētēct-, to uncover : dē-, de- + tegere, to cover; see (s)teg- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere ("to uncover or disclose"), from de- + tegere ("to cover"); see tegument, tile, thatch
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Examples
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And in addition the appearances in the bone, which you call detect by the sight, you should make inquiry as to all these particulars
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The thinly cut meat and its inconsequential roll have next to no flavor; the only taste we can detect is that of the Belgian cheese.
Mussel Bar: Wiedmaier's latest is a letdown, bar none Tom Sietsema 2010
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You will probably respond by saying that what you could detect from the artifact was that true intelligence was involved at some unspecified position in the causal chain.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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You will probably respond by saying that what you could detect from the artifact was that true intelligence was involved at some unspecified position in the causal chain.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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I went to my Firefox view encoding page and discovered that my "auto detect" is listed as off, instead of being on.
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I went to my Firefox view encoding page and discovered that my "auto detect" is listed as off, instead of being on.
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I went to my Firefox view encoding page and discovered that my "auto detect" is listed as off, instead of being on.
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I went to my Firefox view encoding page and discovered that my "auto detect" is listed as off, instead of being on.
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I went to my Firefox view encoding page and discovered that my "auto detect" is listed as off, instead of being on.
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I went to my Firefox view encoding page and discovered that my "auto detect" is listed as off, instead of being on.
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Cross-references
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Words with the same terminal sound
- Brecht
- Hecht
- Select
- affect
- bedecked
- checked
- collect
- confect
- connect
- correct
- decked
- defect
- deflect
- deject
- direct
- disaffect
- disconnect
- disinfect
- disrespect
- dissect
- effect
- eject
- elect
- erect
- expect
- fecht
- incorrect
- indirect
- infect
- inject
- inspect
- interconnect
- interject
- intersect
- misdirect
- necked
- neglect
- nondirect
- object
- overprotect
- perfect
- project
- protect
- rechecked
- recollect
- reconnect
- redirect
- reelect
- reflect
- reinspect
- reject
- respect
- resurrect
- sect
- select
- specht
- subject
- suspect
- trekked
- unchecked
- wecht
- wrecked
jeen0809 commented on the word detect
He detected a smile on his girlfriend's face.
April 14, 2007