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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

... nevertheless he was not totally deficient: he knew what was good to eat or drink, for his taste was perfect, his eyes were very sharp, and he could discover in a moment if a peach was ripe on the wall; his hearing was quick, for he was the first in the school to detect the footsteps of his pedagogue; and he could smell anything savoury nearly a mile off, if the wind lay the right way. Moreover, he knew that if he put his fingers in the fire that he would burn himself; that knives cut severely; ...

— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat

... she had inflicted a mortal wound upon Marie-Anne's heart; but though she watched her closely, she failed to detect the slightest trace ...

— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau

... suggest, that nine tenths of this author's definitions are bad, or at least susceptible of some amendment. If this can be shown to the satisfaction of the reader, will he hope to find an other English grammar in which the eye of criticism may not detect errors and deficiencies with the same ease? My object is, to enforce attention to the proprieties of speech; and this is the very purpose of all grammar. To exhibit here all Murray's definitions, with criticisms upon them, would ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... took my patronage in good part, although I could detect a faint cock of his eye, denoting sly amusement at my ridiculous assumption of superiority. This he now proceeded to "take down a peg" in ...

— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson

... book collector should understand something of book-binding and its terms, so that he may be able to give clear directions as to every item involved in binding, repairing, or re-lettering, and to detect imperfect or slighted work. ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

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