Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of detect is as below...

Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.

Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

Searcher :: Searcher (n.) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities..

Police :: Police (n.) The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws..

Polygraph :: Polygraph (n.) An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector.

Pilot :: Pilot (n.) An instrument for detecting the compass error.

Palpable :: Palpable (a.) Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors..

Reagent :: Reagent (n.) A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test..

Secrecy :: Secrecy (n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy..

Detecting :: Detecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detec.

Detect :: Detect (v. t.) To inform against; to accuse.

Noddy :: Noddy (n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.

Detector :: Detector (n.) One who, or that which, detects; a detecter..

Detecter :: Detecter (n.) One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector..

Detect :: Detect (a.) Detected.

Melanoscope :: Melanoscope (n.) An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit..

Find :: Find (v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.

Beagle :: Beagle (n.) Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold..

Abdominoscopy :: Abdominoscopy (n.) Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

Random Fonts

Most Popular