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/dɪtˈɛktɪŋ/ Listen

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... put the real tanks behind the dummies and the day following not a single shell broke over or near them, and that same night they crept down into Pozieres Valley under shelter of a bombardment made to prevent the keen ear of Fritz detecting the throbbing of ...

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... Winnie grinned, and thumped himself upon the chest. "I did a little detecting on my own and I found her all right. She doesn't know yet that anyone has discovered her whereabouts and I don't mean to pass it on to the Halsteads or the governor, either. She's her own mistress now and if she wants to go away by herself, it's no one's ...

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— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta

... they required a more effectual control and inspection of the officers employed in preventing and detecting smuggling that this fresh organisation was made. Certain stations were also allotted to the commanders of the cruisers, within each district—two to each station—and the stations and limits were also appointed ...

— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton

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— The Sign Of The Red Cross • Evelyn Everett-Green

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