detect

Speech parts

1. detect - Adjective

2. detect - Verb

Meaning

Detected.

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.

To inform against; to accuse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

find observe discover notice expose espy see saw sense know ferret determine note feel identify

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Antonyms

miss intuit have coat chastise cover

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Hypernyms

sight spy

Hyponyms

see sense trace instantiate find out catch out

Phrases with the word

detect no smell detect no scent detect no odor detect the smell of equipment to detect metal objects cannot detect computer viruses

Derivatives

detected detecting

Anagrams

dectet

Examples

One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors. Antisthenes

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. George Eliot

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. George Carlin

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Between two cowards, the first to detect the other has the advantage. Italian Proverb

By much laughter you detect the fool. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

detcord Dete detechnicalize detect a faint smell detect a scent detect a sniff