Detect

What do we mean by detect?

To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of. transitive verb

To discern (something hidden or subtle). transitive verb

To learn something hidden and often improper about. transitive verb

To demodulate. transitive verb

To uncover; lay bare; expose; show.

To discover; find out; ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of: as, to detect an error in an account; to detect the presence of arsenic.

To find out the action or character of; discover a fault or wrong in; unveil, as a person: as, to detect a man in the act of cheating; to detect a hypocrite.

To reveal the guilt or alleged guilt of; inform against; complain of; accuse.

Synonyms To find, ascertain, descry, make out, ferret out, penetrate.

To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light transitive verb

To inform against; to accuse. transitive verb

Detected. adjective

To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing verb

Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of verb

To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing

Words that are spelled similarly to detect:
detect, defect, detest, detent, deject, detrect, detec.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word detect:
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Words that rhyme with detect:
effect, affect, respect, project, subject, aspect, object, perfect, reflect, direct, connect, circumspect, defect, expect, correct, neglect, suspect, collect, select, protect, dialect, reject, deflect, architect, retrospect, dissect, insect, sect, intellect, erect, elect, inspect, disrespect, eject, intersect, indirect, prefect, resurrect, interject, disconnect, inject, infect, transect, side effect, incorrect, recollect, spect, introspect, deject, interconnect, redirect, checked, aftereffect, confect, flecked, wrecked, disaffect, decked, reelect, necked, speckt, disinfect, in effect, bedecked, henpecked, reconnect, misdirect, brecht, welked, hecht, unchecked, doppler effect, trekked, specked, overprotect, greenhouse effect, reinspect, recht, albrecht, pecked, specht, take effect, future perfect, knecht, in that respect, present perfect, schlecht, sound effect, scale insect, past perfect, whelked, stick insect, cantonese dialect, coattails effect, liege subject, willful neglect, rechecked, wecht, child neglect, landscape architect.

Adjectives that are often used to describe detect:
external, carrier, serial, click, first, internal, select.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective detect:
changes, errors, detection, problems, node, presence, quacks, perception, flaws, stimuli, faults, ion, abnormalities, phenol, proteins, bias, differences, trends, conditions, attacks, activity, heart, inconsistencies, signs, complications, sugar, signals, areas, message, materials, option, bands, trains, urocystoliths, alterations, defects, state, antibody, signal, block, anomalies, uncertainties, error, cancer, symptoms, intrusion, digoxigenin, light, cases, deviations, patterns, points, expression.

Consonant match to detect:
doubt act.

Words that sound like detect:
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