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detect
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES detect the presence of sth/sb ▪ They invented a device for detecting the presence of submarines. see/detect signs of sth ▪ I could see some signs of improvement in her health. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB easily ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) Detected. v to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detect \De*tect"\ (d[-e]*t[e^]kt"), a. [L. detectus, p. p. of detegere to uncover, detect; de + tegere to cover. See Tegument .] Detected. [Obs.] --Fabyan.
Usage examples of detect.
Hotel, and has been attended by the most happy results, yet the cases have presented so great a diversity of abnormal features, and have required so many variations in the course of treatment, to be met successfully, that we frankly acknowledge our inability to so instruct the unprofessional reader as to enable him to detect the various systemic faults common to this ever-varying disease, and adjust remedies to them, so as to make the treatment uniformly successful.
It was the abortifacient, she was sure, that was what she was using to detect Sime fetuses.
Zinc is detected by dissolving the substance in hydrochloric or nitric acid, boiling, and adding sodic hydrate in excess, filtering, and adding ammonic sulphide to the filtrate.
It is best detected in acid solutions by the deep brown or iodine colour developed on adding hydroxyl.
His keen eyes detected slight aerosol droplets, revealed in a shaft of sunlight viewed against shade.
Its surface reflectance albedo has been changed enough so that in the past year these changes can now be detected via small commercial telescopes.
Schiff asserts that casein in this state is not attacked by gastric juice, he might easily have overlooked a minute quantity of some albuminous matter, which Drosera would detect and absorb.
From half an hour after training, to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards, it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV - a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis.
Her napkin fell down, and in returning it to her I pressed her thigh amorously, and could not detect the slightest displeasure on her features.
The re-crystallised and pure salt is used for preparing the anhydrous sulphate, which is used for detecting moisture in gases.
She could not detect a ground for such suspicion in the Ashake memories she could tap.
A pencil, drawn over the sole of the foot, occasioned a visible shrinking movement, and, on looking once more at the eyes, I detected a slight change that told me that the atropine was beginning to take effect.
Gold seemed to interest Cranston, and in his gaze Selwood detected approval of the exhibits from the Aureole Mine.
Apparently the god could neither hear nor see them, nor detect urine or draught from the blue nipples -- or for tactical reasons was behaving as if he could not.
In my interview, calling my attachment and tender feelings to my aid, I succeeded in behaving myself in such wise that she could not possibly detect the change which a new love had worked in my heart.