Definition of Detect

De`tect´   Pronunciation: dė`tĕkt´
a.1.Detected.
v. t.1.To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.
[imp. & p. p. Detected; p. pr. & vb. n. Detecting.]
Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last.
- Burke.
Like following life through creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect.
- Pope.
2.To inform against; to accuse.
He was untruly judged to have preached such articles as he was detected of.
- Sir T. More.


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catch, descry, dig up, discern, distinguish, encounter, espy, feel, find out, hit, identify, locate, make out, note, notice, observe, perceive, pick up, read, recognize, scent, see, sense, smell, spot, spy, uncover, unearth

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