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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?
We do expect to detect cancer DNA when the tumors are small - much sooner than stage three or four.
We’re much better when we detect things before there’s an emergency, we can prevent major emergencies from happening.
No other channel for political advertising is as transparent and offers the tools that we do, we have tripled the size of the team working to detect and protect users from bad content to 30,000 people and invested heavily in machine learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision technology to help prevent this type of abuse.
The results of our study are surprising, researchers usually assume the primate and human cognitive system to be specifically tuned to detect signals of danger and threat in the environment as a mechanism of survival.
Gwen Landt said. Gwen Landt added that Gwen Landt is trying to give tips to people on when its best to help these animals and when they should be left alone. Rescuers believe the beautiful fawn was separated from Gwen Landt mother and hit by a car which snapped her right back leg just below the hip bone. ( Credit : SWNS) When the mama is taking care of her baby, she leaves it in the ground and it curls up like a little croissant so the mother can go off and find food, she leaves the baby because it doesnt have any scent for a predator to detect. People often come across the baby deer and they think, Oh, it doesnt have a parent, Ill rescue it. But they should wait to see if the mother comes back.
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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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