English > detect: 1 sense > verb 1, perceptionMeaning | Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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Example | "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water" |
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Synonyms | observe, find, discover, notice |
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Narrower | find out, catch out | trap |
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instantiate | Find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) |
see | observe as if with an eye |
sense | detect some circumstance or entity automatically |
trace | Discover traces of |
Broader | spy, sight | catch sight of |
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Similar to | discover, find | make a discovery, make a new finding |
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Spanish | advertir, apreciar, descubrir, detectar, distinguir, divisar, encontrar, observar, percibir, vislumbrar |
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Catalan | advertir, apreciar, descobrir, detectar, observar, trobar |
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Nouns | detecting | a police investigation to determine the perpetrator |
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detection | the act of detecting something |
detector | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
detector | electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity |