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detect
- /dɪˈtɛkt/ UK
Rhymes with -ɛkt
Where it comes from
From Latin detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere (“to uncover or disclose”), from de- + tegere (“to cover”); see tegument, tile, thatch.
Sense "to work or solve cases as a detective" a back-formation from detective.
verb detects · detecting · detected
- To discover or notice, especially by careful search, examination, or probing. The forensic examiners detected tiny traces of the poison on the suspect's gloves.
- To work or solve cases as a detective. Parker would in all likelihood have done so; he was paid to detect and to do nothing else, and neither his natural gifts nor his education (at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School) prompted him to stray into side-tracks at the beck of an ill-regulated imagination.
adjective
- Detected.
