DETECT
Dictionary entry overview: What does detect mean?
• DETECT (verb)
The verb DETECT has 1 sense:
1. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Familiarity information: DETECT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DETECT (verb)
Meaning:
Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
detect; discover; notice; observe; find
Context examples:
She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water / We found traces of lead in the paint
Hypernyms (to "detect" is one way to...):
sight (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "detect"):
catch out; find out (trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act)
sense (detect some circumstance or entity automatically)
instantiate (find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word))
trace (discover traces of)
see (observe as if with an eye)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
