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verb

Detect v. t. (past & past part. detected; pres. part. detecting)

To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account. "Plain good intention... is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last." "Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect."

To inform against; to accuse. (Obs.) "He was untruly judged to have preached such articles as he was detected of."

Synonyms: To discover; find out; lay bare; expose.

adjective

Detect adj. Detected. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Detect'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Detect" Quotes from Famous Books

... had to be worked evenly; at the same time every nerve was strained in order to detect the slightest bulge in the upright net, should it come in contact with a ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 • Various

... was served, I could detect no falling off in the colonel's appetite. With the exception of a certain nervous expectance, intensified when there was a rap at the front door, followed by a certain consequent disappointment when Chad announced the return ...

— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith

... man's imperfect vision did not detect the departure of his son, but his face changed and softened as the latter strode silently through the ...

— Night and Morning, Volume 2 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... unusual nature of the ornament which attracted Caldew's attention, but the material, of which it was composed, a clear almost transparent stone, with the faintest possible tinge of green. Holding it in the sunlight, Caldew was able to detect one or two minute black flecks in the stone. There was no doubt about it—the image was of the same peculiar material as the trinket he had seen in the murdered woman's room the ...

— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

... felt more interested in watching the arrivals and movements of strangers, than on this evening, for our honour was concerned, to detect the lovers, and raise the veil. Papas and mammas, and masters and misses, came trooping in; old ladies, and middle-aged; old gentlemen, and middle-aged—until the number amounted to about thirty, and Cousin Con's drawing-rooms were comfortably filled. We closely scrutinised all the young folks, ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 - Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 • Various

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