[
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
- One can only guess at the research and detective work that has gone into the bald details recorded for each piece.
- To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
- Difenacoum, detected in her blood samples, can be absorbed through skin, with prolonged anticoagulant effects.
- RF, cryoglobulins and anti LKMI antibodies were the most frequently detected markers.
- 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.
- Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
- Impacts may create undetectable cracks that, because of the continuous loads, could result in structural damage.
- 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 private detective was hired to conduct the investigation .