Detect

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of.
  • v. To discern (something hidden or subtle): detected a note of sarcasm in the remark.
  • v. To learn something hidden and often improper about: detected the manager in a lie.
  • v. Electronics To demodulate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Detected.
  • v. To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light
  • v. To inform against; to accuse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
  • Verb Form
    detected    detecting    detects   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sight    spy   
    Cross Reference
    discover    stumble upon    find   
    Hyponym
    catch out    instantiate    see    trace    find out    sense   
    Form
    detection    detective    detector   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    detected    expose    discover    find out    lay bare    accuse    perceive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brecht    Hecht    Select    affect    bedecked    checked    collect    confect    connect    correct   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts