What part of speech is detect?

Detect can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. detect is a verb, present, 1st person singular of detect (infinitive).
  • 2. detect is a verb (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does detect mean?

Definitions

Verb

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"

Examples of detect

#   Sentence  
1. verb I detect the hissing lisp of the lying serpent in this article.
2. verb One is a special tool to detect damage to the thermal-protective tile while in orbit - something the Columbia crew would have welcomed.
3. verb The computer can detect 200 types of error.
4. verb The only metal that a metal detector can detect is the metal in another metal detector. That fact was instrumental in my parents' meeting.
5. verb Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.
6. verb I can't detect any pattern.
7. verb Our eyes can detect light.
8. verb A Pap test can help detect cervical cancer early on.
9. verb They won't detect anything out of the ordinary.
10. verb Do I detect an attitude problem?
11. verb Do I detect sarcasm?
12. verb The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)'s mission was to study the microwave sky in order to detect radiation emitted by the Big Bang.
13. verb Clyde Tombaugh's job was to photograph one small piece of the night sky at a time. He then had to carefully examine and compare the photos in an effort to detect an unidentified moving point of light that might be a planet.
14. verb As I’ve said before, these lone actors or small cells of terrorists are very hard to detect and very hard to prevent. But across our government, at every level -- federal, state and local, military and civilian -- we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks.
15. verb Gravitational waves are very hard to detect.
Sentence  
verb
I detect the hissing lisp of the lying serpent in this article.
One is a special tool to detect damage to the thermal-protective tile while in orbit - something the Columbia crew would have welcomed.
The computer can detect 200 types of error.
The only metal that a metal detector can detect is the metal in another metal detector. That fact was instrumental in my parents' meeting.
Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.
I can't detect any pattern.
Our eyes can detect light.
A Pap test can help detect cervical cancer early on.
They won't detect anything out of the ordinary.
Do I detect an attitude problem?
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.
Clyde Tombaugh's job was to photograph one small piece of the night sky at a time. He then had to carefully examine and compare the photos in an effort to detect an unidentified moving point of light that might be a planet.
As I’ve said before, these lone actors or small cells of terrorists are very hard to detect and very hard to prevent. But across our government, at every level -- federal, state and local, military and civilian -- we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks.
Gravitational waves are very hard to detect.

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