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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromLatindetectus, perfect passive participle ofdetegere(“to uncover or disclose”), fromde- +tegere(“to cover”); seetegument,tile,thatch.

Verb

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detect (third-person singular simple presentdetects,present participledetecting,simple past and past participledetected)

  1. Todiscover orfind bycarefulsearch,examination, orprobing.
    • 1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth,Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page430:
      Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has beendetected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
    • 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, inTrains Illustrated, page329:
      Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, whichdetects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].
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Translations
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to detect—seenotice
to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
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Adjective

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detect (notcomparable)

  1. (obsolete)Detected.

Etymology 2

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Back-formation fromdetective.

Verb

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detect (third-person singular simple presentdetects,present participledetecting,simple past and past participledetected)

  1. (intransitive, informal) Towork orsolvecases as adetective.
    • 1926,Dorothy L. Sayers,Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey; 2),T. Fisher Unwin,→ISBN, page105:
      Parker would in all likelihood have done so; he was paid todetect and to do nothing else, and neither his natural gifts nor his education (at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School) prompted him to stray into side-tracks at the beck of an ill-regulated imagination.
    • 1978, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, Michael Turner, transl.,Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin),Egmont, published2012,→ISBN,page45:
      Let me introduce myself: Mike MacAdam, hotel detective. / H-how d-’you do? / Mind if I begindetecting?
    • 1991,Hillary Waugh,Hillary Waugh's Guide to Mysteries & Mystery Writing Novel,Writer's Digest Books,→ISBN, page11:
      In a detective story, a detectivedetects; an active effort is made to determine who committed a given crime, and detecting the identity of a criminal could not be done until there were detectives.
    • 2019 May 9, Ben Kenigsberg, “'Pokémon Detective Pikachu' Review: A Cat and (Electric) Mouse Game”, inThe New York Times‎[1], archived fromthe original on17 December 2022:
      That aversion is tested when he teams up with Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds), his father'sdetecting partner, after the father appears to have been killed in an accident.

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