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de·tect
(dĭ-tĕkt′)tr.v.de·tect·ed,de·tect·ing,de·tects
1. To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of.
2. To discern (something hidden or subtle):detected a note of sarcasm in the remark.
3. To learn something hidden and often improper about:detected the manager in a lie.
4.Electronics To demodulate.
[Middle Englishdetecten, from Latindētegere, dētēct-,to uncover :dē-,de- +tegere,to cover; see(s)teg- inIndo-European roots.]
de·tect′a·ble,de·tect′i·ble adj.
de·tect′er n.
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detect
(dɪˈtɛkt)vb (tr)
1.to perceive or notice:to detect a note of sarcasm.
2.to discover the existence or presence of (esp something likely to elude observation):to detect alcohol in the blood.
3. (Electronics) to extract information from (an electromagnetic wave)
4.obsolete to reveal or expose (a crime, criminal, etc)
[C15: from Latindētectus uncovered, from dētegere to uncover, from de- +tegere to cover]
deˈtectable,deˈtectibleadj
deˈtectern
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de•tect
(dɪˈtɛkt)v.t.
1. to discover or notice the existence or presence of: to detect the odor of gas.
2. to discover (a person) in some act: to detect someone cheating.
3. to discover the true, usu. concealed or underlying nature of.
4. to demodulate.
[1400–50; late Middle English < Latindētēctus, past participle ofdētegere to uncover]
de•tect′a•ble, de•tect′i•ble,adj.
de•tect`a•bil′i•ty,de•tect`i•bil′i•ty,n.
syn:Seelearn.
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Past participle:detected
Gerund:detecting
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Verb | 1. | detect - discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" catch out,find out - trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks" discover,find - make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" sense - detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization" instantiate - find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word); "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect" trace - discover traces of; "She traced the circumstances of her birth" see - observe as if with an eye; "The camera saw the burglary and recorded it" |
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Translations
كشفيَكْتَشِف
objevitzjistitnajít
mærkeopdage
tuvastama
havaitahuomata
uppgötva, átta sig á
検出する見付ける
aptiktiseklyssusekti
atklātatrastuzietuztvert
detecteren
odkriti
upptäcka
detect
[dɪˈtekt]VT (=discover) →descubrir; (=notice) →percibir,detectar; [+crime] →descubrir; [+criminal] →identificar (Tech) (by radar etc) →detectarCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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detect
vt →entdecken,herausfinden;(= see, make out) →ausfindigmachen;crime →aufdecken;disease →feststellen;a tone of sadness, movement, noise →wahrnehmen;mine, gas →aufspüren;do Idetect a note of irony? →höre ich danicht einegewisseIronie (heraus)?
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detect
[dɪˈtɛkt]vt (signs, traces, drug, motive) →scoprire; (feeling) →avvertire (Radar) →individuare; (gas, smoke) →avvertire lapresenza diCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
detect
(diˈtekt) verb to notice or discover.She thought she could detect a smell of gas. bespeur يَكْتَشِف откривам detectar objevit, zjistitentdecken mærke; opdageεντοπίζω,αντιλαμβάνομαιdetectar,sentir tajuma, tabama پی بردن به؛ کشف کردن havaitadétecter לְגָלוֹת पकड़ पाना detektirati felfedez menemukan uppgötva, átta sig áscoprire 見つける 찾아내다 susekti, aptikti atklāt; uziet; atrast; uztvert kesanbespeurenfornemme,merke,oppdage wykrywać, odkrywać موندل، څرګندول، كشفول sentir a detectaуловить zistiť odkriti primetiti upptäcka, uppdaga, märka สืบหาfarkına varmak, sezmek,keşfetmek,bulmak 察覺 виявляти; викривати کسی بات یا شی کو محسوس کرنا phát hiện察觉
deˈtective (-tiv) noun a person who tries to find criminals or watches suspected persons.She was questioned by detectives. speurder مُخْبِر، بوليس سِرّي детектив detetive detektiv der Detektiv opdager; detektiv; kriminalassistentντετέκτιβdetective detektiiv کارآگاه etsivä policier/-ière;détectiveבלש जासूस detektivi nyomozó detektif leyni-/rannsóknarlögreglumaðurdetective,investigatore,investigatrice 探偵, 刑事 탐정, 형사 seklys detektīvs detektifrechercheurkriminalbetjent,detektiv wywiadowca خبرشویdetective detectivдетектив detektív detektiv detektiv detektiv, kriminalare นักสืบdedektif 偵探 детектив, агент розшуку سراغ رساں thám tử侦探
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detect
v. detectar, descubrir.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
detect
vt detectarEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Unable todetect a weak point in this scheme of mutual advantage, the financier gave the promoter in disguise an order for the money, and wrote a note to his wife directing her to count out the girl.
Because the Romans did in these instances what all prudent princes ought to do, who have to regard not only present troubles, but also future ones, for which they must prepare with every energy, because, when foreseen, it is easy to remedy them; but if you wait until they approach, the medicine is no longer in time because the malady has become incurable; for it happens in this, as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult todetect, but in the course of time, not having been eitherdetected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy todetect but difficult to cure.
"Heart" was intended for a much longer tale, and is unavoidably incomplete; but it is unnecessary to point out defects that even the juvenile reader will soondetect. The author only hopes that if they do no good, her tales will, at least, do no harm.
Where pride and stupidity unite there can be no dissimulation worthy notice, and Miss Vernon shall be consigned to unrelenting contempt; but by all that I can gather Lady Susan possesses a degree of captivating deceit which it must be pleasing to witness anddetect. I shall be with you very soon, and am ever,
It is nowhere muddy, and a casual observer would say that there were no weeds at all in it; and of noticeable plants, except in the little meadows recently overflowed, which do not properly belong to it, a closer scrutiny does notdetect a flag nor a bulrush, nor even a lily, yellow or white, but only a few small heart-leaves and potamogetons, and perhaps a water-target or two; all which however a bather might not perceive; and these plants are clean and bright like the element they grow in.
I for my part noticed by the sense of sight, before I entered your Kingdom, that some of your people are Lines and others Points, and that some of the Lines are larger --" "You speak of an impossibility," interrupted the King; "you must have seen a vision; for todetect the difference between a Line and a Point by the sense of sight is, as every one knows, in the nature of things, impossible; but it can bedetected by the sense of hearing, and by the same means my shape can be exactly ascertained.
And often, from the side of my eye, I coulddetect her raising a hand, and brushing something off her cheek.
At a public meeting in the Town-hall yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing myself insulted by the speaker opposed to me in the question under discussion, by allusions to my private affairs; by cant about monsters without natural affection, family despots, and such trash; and when I rose to answer, I was met by a shout from the filthy mob, where the mention of your name enabled me at once todetect the quarter in which this base attack had originated.
The girl stood pointing in the direction from whence we had come, and as I arose and looked, I, too, thought that I coulddetect a thin dark line on the far horizon.
The projectile had beendetected, thanks to the gigantic reflector of Long's Peak!
In that position, he not onlydetected you in taking the Diamond out of the drawer--he alsodetected Miss Verinder, silently watching you from her bedroom, through her open door.
Before they died the brilliant one wasdetected in seventy languages as the author of but two or three books of fiction and poetry, while the other was honoured in the Bureau of Statistics of his native land as the compiler of sixteen volumes of tabulated information relating to the domestic hog.
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