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Verb detects, detecting, detected
detect - 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"
		observe, find, discover, notice
		sight, spy take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
		catch out, find out trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"
		sense comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter"
		instantiate find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word); "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect"
		trace follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress"
		see be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product"

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detect (Verb)
To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.

detect (a.)
Detected.
detect (v. t.)
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.
detect (v. t.)
To inform against; to accuse.

detect
To spot, detect, recognize, capture, or see something or someone having been unknown, invisible, obscured, too distant, or otherwise not found before.
detect
To see, discover or determine something, unclear, distant or hidden, by looking carefully.

detect
de-tekt′, v.t. (lit.) to uncover—hence to discover: to find out.—adjs. Detect′able, Detect′ible.—ns. Detect′er, -or, one who detects: an apparatus for detecting something, as a detector-lock, which shows if it has been tampered with; Detec′tion, discovery of something hidden: state of being found out.—adj. Detect′ive, employed in detecting.—n. a policeman employed in the investigation of special cases of crime, or in watching special classes of wrong-doers, usually not in uniform.—Private detective, one employed by a private person to gain information, or to watch his interests. [L. detectum, detegĕre—de, neg., and tegĕre, tectum, to cover.]