detect
Usage
What are other ways to say detect?
To detect implies becoming aware of something that had been obscure, secret, or concealed: to detect a flaw in reasoning. To ascertain is to verify facts by inquiry or analysis: to ascertain the truth about an event. To learn is to add to one's knowledge or information: to learn a language. The verb discover is used with objective clauses as a synonym of learn in order to suggest that the new information acquired is surprising to the learner: I discovered that she had been married before.
Example Sentences
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This points to the need for larger, more detailed studies, including improved methods for detecting mixed blood meals.
From Science Daily
The company’s portfolio comprises land, air, and sea sensors for detecting drones and other threats; agentic AI software, which provides analytics; and human expertise across software, cyber, and military domains.
From Barron's
The team plans to build on these results by exploring how such dark matter particles might be detected.
From Science Daily
Pancreatic cancer is pernicious, but five-year survival has increased three-fold since the 1990s to 13%, which the report attributes to more cancers being detected incidentally at earlier stages when they are easier to treat.
Small boat crossings have become the most common way for people to be detected entering the UK illegally since 2020.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
