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detect English

Meaning detect meaning

What does detect mean?
Definitions in simple English

detect Verb

— If you detect something, you use your senses to find or notice it. Some insects can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degrees Celsius. These animals have a smell that even a human nose can easily detect. The chemical has been detected in lakes and rivers, in fish and birds, and in human breast milk. Our instruments are not sensitive enough to detect it.

detect

— verb (= find, discover) 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

Synonyms detect synonyms

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detect English » English

discover find notice perceive find out spot sense discern uncover observe descry spy see reveal investigate smell note espy sight realize inquire hear feel expose behold track trace strip steal starve snoop skin shell search rumble rout remark purloin peel nick locate invent identify glimpse distinguish dig up diagnoze deprive comprehend come up

Topics detect topics

What do people use detect to talk about?
Person

Sense, perceive
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Notice
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Disclose
Social behavior Law Trial

Investigate a crime
Physical actions Hide

Search

Conjugation detect conjugation

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detect · verb

Examples detect examples

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Simple sentences

Some researchers believe that the pigeons can detect the Earth's magnetic field.
I can't detect any pattern.
A Pap test can help detect cervical cancer early on.
Do I detect sarcasm?
The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)'s mission was to study the microwave sky in order to detect radiation emitted by the Big Bang.
Gravitational waves are very hard to detect.
Spiders can detect electric fields.
They won't detect anything out of the ordinary.

Movie subtitles

There was no way to detect them and so it was one of those domains of science that you couldn't answer, and, therefore, you didn't talk about it.
And that's exactly what the Kepler spacecraft can detect.
And yet, if you were to detect Venus orbiting another star, you might suspect it would have Earth-like conditions.
We're sending transmissions out into the cosmos, but suppose we detect a signal from an alien civilisation.
None of us police could detect any difference either, neither with the magnifying glass nor in the photographs.
It takes so long to detect them. because their mood changes so often and so quickly.
Panama Smith, in view of the evidence presented in your behalf by your codefendant and because the arresting officers failed to detect you actually selling intoxicating liquors, I find you not guilty.
I detect distinct symptoms of pyrexia.
They're a cinch to have a sounding device to detect uninvited guests like us.
In the future, Monsieur Inspector, I detect, you model.
One can detect an ailing tooth by the dull sound that comes from it when struck by a hammer.
He's right. lt's best the Marlows detect no weaknesses.
Could you detect where a neurosis might damage decision-making?
I figured a good detective would jump at the chance of something to detect.
Oort wanted to detect and analyse that emission too, as soon as the war was over.
The A.I. running the Savior tanks seemed to detect no threat as far as those capsules are concerned, but we can deal with that by reprogramming the settings.
I don't detect any intruders nearby.
I detect nothing. There's no sign of anyone else in the station.
It's Jet's brainwaves. I can't detect them, nothing at all.
His plans are thwarted as he is about to place invisible cholera bacteria into New York's water supply that no microscope would be able to detect.
It takes so long to detect them, because their mood changes so often and so quickly.
The problem of the White Force is to detect the secret location of this bridgehead and destroy it before it's completed.
Radar, a remarkable instrument utilized in modern warfare. to detect the approach of the enemy. now finds a useful place in the American home.
I think I detect a receipt-hunting party of Mr. Amboy's.
I detect no traces whatever of the Grady influence here.
He couldn't detect a monk in a convent.
Only Mr. Davis in such a difficult case could detect the forgery.
I figured a detective would jump at the chance of something to detect.
Good, igor come and help me to detect.
Distant Early Warning radar, sensitive electronic devices to detect the presence of objects in the sky, including bombing planes and guided missiles and rain clouds and homing pigeons.
Do I detect a look of disaproval?
Well. I seem to detect the insolence of a future official of the court.
Scans detect unknown technology active within Sphere Chamber.
How can I get to their spaceship when our instruments cannot detect its presence?
This truly remarkable apparatus of yours was surely set to detect, was it not, hallucinations?
We can detect them with these, if you're interested.
We have hearers which can detect you.
We'll attempt to transport up any living beings our sensors detect.
Which we were unable to detect upon approach.
Sensors detect no life of any kind.

News and current affairs

The Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen notes in his latest magisterial book The Idea of Justice that most people understand that a process is fair when they can detect a connection between effort and reward.
Sophisticated X-ray diagnostic techniques such as CT scans make it possible to detect many cancers at a treatable stage.
Renault and Nissan are currently working on complementary technologies that can predict, detect, and prevent collisions.
They can be used to detect a condition in healthy people who have no reason to suspect they are at risk.
If we prohibit drugs in the Olympic Games, we owe it to the athletes to deter, detect, and punish those who cheat.
Unlike in a randomized trial, no one would receive a placebo, and it should still be possible to detect which treatments are effective.
Economists seek to detect collective irrationality, and economic models that assume individual rationality facilitate that.
Europe's response to terror requires, first and foremost, strengthening its intelligence services so that they can detect and dismantle terrorist cells while respecting basic rights and due process.
Although the single currency was supposed to bring unprecedented prosperity, it is difficult to detect a significant positive effect for the eurozone as a whole in the period before the crisis.
Those who see dark American forces behind all that is wrong with the world, from financial crashes to the violence in Ukraine, are prone to detect the malign hand of Israeli or even Jewish lobbies in every US policy.
Unfortunately, we cannot know in advance if surgery will succeed because we cannot detect if cancerous cells have spread.
Threats to the system as a whole can arise in a manner that is difficult to detect, and that can cause risk-mitigation strategies that work well in normal times to malfunction.
The crisis did provide doctors with some greater understanding of how to detect methyl mercury poisoning.
Savulescu proposes that instead of trying to detect whether an athlete has taken drugs, we should focus on measurable indications of whether an athlete is risking his or her health.
Unemployment is surging in many countries, even though we can detect the first signs of recovery from the recession.
Police use them to detect and repress dissidents.
A mammogram (x-ray of the breast) is administered to ostensibly healthy people to detect unsuspected disease.
If more screening can detect breast cancer in asymptomatic women in their 40's, wouldn't it also detect cancer in women in their 30's?
To address the scourge of cancer, we must complement efforts to detect and treat cancer with new ways to keep people from developing the disease in the first place.
Supporters of screening argue that it helps to detect and treat cancer earlier, when the chances of curing it are highest.
First, they are not easy to detect with confidence, and are even more difficult to prove.
Yet, while lone wolves like Breivik are hard to detect, active members of terror organizations are much easier to detect and monitor.
Rather than seeking to detect a quantum of the gravitational field, researchers are looking for other effects that would imply that gravity is quantized.
So far, these attempts have failed to detect the sought-after evidence.
Re-wetting peatlands and the restoration of degraded peat forests should be the next step, followed by the creation of early warning systems to detect and control forest fires.

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