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UK
/dɪtˈɛkt/
]
[ US /dɪˈtɛkt/ ]
[ US /dɪˈtɛkt/ ]
VERB
-
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
How To Use detect In A Sentence
- Difenacoum, detected in her blood samples, can be absorbed through skin, with prolonged anticoagulant effects.
- To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
- One can only guess at the research and detective work that has gone into the bald details recorded for each piece.
- It checks bank account numbers before accepting them and will detect many common transcription errors, including incorrectly entered and transposed characters. Times, Sunday Times
- A senior detective who led the hunt for two armed robbers behind a series of terrifying raids across Bradford today told of the desperate race against time to catch them before someone was shot.
- RF, cryoglobulins and anti LKMI antibodies were the most frequently detected markers.
- The question is, who is liable for the cost of repairs if, for example, an undetected slow leak in a geyser causes a ceiling collapse and water damage to interior paint work, carpets and furniture?
- At present the public have few reliable ways of detecting whether reporting is deceptive or not.
- The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
- High-frequency waves broadcast by the radar bounce off a person, scanning the in-and-out movement of the chest and more subtle, but also detectable, motion of the heartbeat against the chest wall.