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Synonyms for detect
dɪˈtɛktde·tect
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
detect
Of human actions or character, detect is used, almost without exception, in a bad sense; discover may be used in either the good or the bad sense, oftener in the good; he was detected in a fraud; real merit is sure to be discovered. In scientific language, detect is used of delicate indications that appear in course of careful watching; as, a slight fluttering of the pulse could be detected. We discover what has existed but has not been known to us; we invent combinations or arrangements not before in use; Columbus discovered America; Morse invented the electric telegraph. Find is the most general word for every means of coming to know what was not before certainly known. A man finds in the road some stranger's purse, or finds his own which he is searching for. The expert discovers or detects an error in an account; the auditor finds the account to be correct. Compare DISCERN.
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Synonyms:
ascertain, descry, discern, disclose, discover, expose, ferret out, find, find out, invent
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Princeton's WordNet
detect, observe, find, discover, noticeverb
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:
line up, recover, chance upon, follow, strike, let out, find oneself, get wind, get, get hold, reveal, keep an eye on, attain, let on, find, acknowledge, retrieve, get word, fall upon, rule, notice, disclose, divulge, chance, abide by, determine, see, find out, keep, key, come up, remark, bring out, celebrate, watch over, comment, take note, honor, identify, name, encounter, learn, come upon, happen, watch, receive, happen upon, feel, describe, point out, chance on, incur, come across, expose, observe, get a line, distinguish, witness, honour, mention, pick up, give away, ascertain, mark, maintain, unwrap, break, respect, bump, light upon, regain, obtain, discover, key out, note, hear
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List of paraphrases for "detect":
detecting, detection, identify, detects, discover, uncover, discovery, spot, identifying, detectable, trace, reconnaissance
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#64 | see | |
#77 | get | |
#100 | find | |
#108 | name | |
#424 | learn | |
#460 | note | |
#525 | comment | |
#569 | key | |
#656 | keep | |
#689 | notice | |
#834 | mark | |
#871 | watch | |
#873 | feel | |
#909 | receive | |
#1164 | follow | |
#1419 | rule | |
#1618 | break | |
#1701 | respect | |
#1736 | hear | |
#1885 | chance | |
#1914 | determine | |
#2244 | identify | |
#2422 | maintain | |
#2584 | obtain | |
#2877 | happen | |
#2915 | spot | |
#2995 | discover | |
#3114 | describe | |
#3349 | discovery | |
#3884 | strike | |
#3935 | mention | |
#4059 | detection | |
#4193 | honor | |
#5193 | witness | |
#5496 | identifying | |
#5503 | trace | |
#6356 | recover | |
#6691 | celebrate | |
#7029 | detect | |
#7124 | reveal | |
#7591 | observe | |
#7693 | encounter | |
#8397 | acknowledge | |
#8514 | retrieve | |
#8919 | remark | |
#9419 | disclose | |
#9954 | unwrap | |
#10225 | honour | |
#10269 | distinguish | |
#10588 | bump | |
#12366 | expose | |
#14002 | detecting | |
#14782 | attain | |
#17603 | incur | |
#18412 | detects | |
#19303 | regain | |
#19866 | ascertain | |
#19970 | uncover | |
#21495 | invent | |
#22502 | reconnaissance | |
#23671 | detectable | |
#26968 | discern | |
#33609 | unmask | |
#42688 | divulge | |
#274347 | descry |
How to use detect in a sentence?
So this accusation of finding human DNA in there, you can detect a very small amount, but they're not quantifying the amount. It could be just a few cells versus a percentage content. the whole issue of food adulteration is starting to become a really hot area right now, and I think a lot of people became aware of the issue in meat fairly recently.
On the looting, that's an intelligence failure, if a couple of hundred people knew to be in a certain place at a certain time for criminal activity and we didn't detect that, that's on me. We've gone back looking for' where was the Facebook page, where was the chatter in the places where we monitor gang's social media' and we still haven't seen it.
This ensemble of chemistry, environmental, and descent imaging data will paint a picture of the layered Venus atmosphere and how it interacts with the surface in the mountains of Alpha Regio, which is twice the size of Texas, these measurements will allow us to evaluate historical aspects of the atmosphere as well as detect special rock types at the surface such as granites while also looking for tell-tale landscape features that could tell us about erosion or other formational processes.
The reason the CDC does not require someone to test again after 10 days of isolation is it's very likely that for some period the test is going to detect remnant viral particles, each day you have less remnant viral particles in your body.
We have developed software to improve battery life to two years. Water completes the circuit, so when our bait is out of the water, it turns off. With the new software, our baits also detect movement. Now, even when submerged, if there is a long period without movement, the bait goes into a deep sleep.
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- كشفArabic
- откривам, намирамBulgarian
- detectarCatalan, Valencian
- odhalit, najít, objevitCzech
- entdeckenGerman
- detectarSpanish
- tuvastamaEstonian
- huomata, havaitaFinnish
- déceler, détecterFrench
- des-kovrar, des-vel-izarIdo
- individuareItalian
- 検出する, 見付けるJapanese
- 찾다, 탐지하다, 수색하다Korean
- deprehendereLatin
- detecterenDutch
- wykrywać, wykryćPolish
- detectarPortuguese
- выявить, выявлять, обнаруживать, обнаружитьRussian
- otkritiSerbo-Croatian
- upptäckaSwedish
- phát hiệnVietnamese
- 检测Chinese
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