Detect
verb
To discover or perceive the existence or presence of something.
She detected a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
Often appears as...
- detect presence
- detect smell
verb
Identify a specific characteristic or detail of something.
The virus is difficult to detect in the early stages of infection.
Often appears as...
- detect virus
- detect fraud
verb
Discover or investigate a crime or wrongdoing.
The police were able to detect the crime because of the evidence left at the scene.
Often appears as...
- detect crime
- detect wrongdoing
verb
To notice or discern something with the senses.
Taste buds can detect five different kinds of taste.
Often appears as...
- detect taste
- detect sound
verb
To discover or perceive the existence or presence of something.
She detected a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
Often appears as...
- detect presence
- detect smell
verb
Identify a specific characteristic or detail of something.
The virus is difficult to detect in the early stages of infection.
Often appears as...
- detect virus
- detect fraud
verb
Discover or investigate a crime or wrongdoing.
The police were able to detect the crime because of the evidence left at the scene.
Often appears as...
- detect crime
- detect wrongdoing
verb
To notice or discern something with the senses.
Taste buds can detect five different kinds of taste.
Often appears as...
- detect taste
- detect sound
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Subtle Discovery
Detect often signals discovering something not obvious at first glance.
Upon rereading the text, I detected an underlying theme of redemption.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Nuance
Detect can imply a level of sensitivity when noticing subtle emotions.
He could detect the disappointment in her faint smile.
Pro Tip 1/2Subtle Discovery
Detect often signals discovering something not obvious at first glance.
Upon rereading the text, I detected an underlying theme of redemption.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Nuance
Detect can imply a level of sensitivity when noticing subtle emotions.
He could detect the disappointment in her faint smile.
Pro Tip 1/2Subtle Discovery
Detect often signals discovering something not obvious at first glance.
Upon rereading the text, I detected an underlying theme of redemption.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Nuance
Detect can imply a level of sensitivity when noticing subtle emotions.
He could detect the disappointment in her faint smile.
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The language of lying —...
and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,
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Can you solve the frog...
Computers and other devices use conditional probability to detect likely errors in the strings of 1's and 0's that all our data consists of. And in many of our own life decisions, we use information gained from past experience and our surroundings to narrow down our choices to the best options
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How sugar affects the...
first, to detect food that's gone bad. And second, because the more variety we have in our diet, the more likely we are to get all the nutrients we need. To keep that variety up, we need to be able to recognize a new food, and more importantly, we need to want to keep eating new foods.
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Elon Musk: The future...
because it's a high-density area. You're going under a lot of buildings and houses, and if you go deep enough, you cannot detect the tunnel. Sometimes people think, well, it's going to be pretty annoying to have a tunnel dug under my house. Like, if that tunnel is dug
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Schrödinger's cat: A...
each electron on the far side is detected at a single place at a specific instant, like a particle. But if you repeat this experiment many times, keeping track of all the individual detections, you'll see them trace out a pattern that's characteristic of wave
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Good news about...
before it was detected three years ago that number fell to 23 days it's a world of difference between waiting five to six months to find a new pandemic then finding it in three weeks so the key of early detection has got to be understood
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Secrets of the X...
The X chromosome, on the other hand, contains important genes for things other than sex determination or reproduction, like nervous system development, skeletal muscle function, and the receptors in the eyes that detect green light.
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Is radiation dangerous?...
At the lower end of the spectrum, there's radio, infrared, and visible light. At the higher end are ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma rays. Modern society is shaped by sending and detecting electromagnetic radiation.
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The Hot Zone: Official...
Ebola has never been detected on US soil. There's a first time for everything. I have a husband, two kids. We have a duty to protect them. You always fight so hard.
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Beaver Lodge Construction...
So important is their dam to them, that if they detect the slightest leak, usually by hearing the sound of trickling water,
Video examples
The language of lying —...
and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,
Video examples
Can you solve the frog...
Computers and other devices use conditional probability to detect likely errors in the strings of 1's and 0's that all our data consists of. And in many of our own life decisions, we use information gained from past experience and our surroundings to narrow down our choices to the best options
Video examples
How sugar affects the...
first, to detect food that's gone bad. And second, because the more variety we have in our diet, the more likely we are to get all the nutrients we need. To keep that variety up, we need to be able to recognize a new food, and more importantly, we need to want to keep eating new foods.
Video examples
Elon Musk: The future...
because it's a high-density area. You're going under a lot of buildings and houses, and if you go deep enough, you cannot detect the tunnel. Sometimes people think, well, it's going to be pretty annoying to have a tunnel dug under my house. Like, if that tunnel is dug
Video examples
Schrödinger's cat: A...
each electron on the far side is detected at a single place at a specific instant, like a particle. But if you repeat this experiment many times, keeping track of all the individual detections, you'll see them trace out a pattern that's characteristic of wave
Video examples
Good news about...
before it was detected three years ago that number fell to 23 days it's a world of difference between waiting five to six months to find a new pandemic then finding it in three weeks so the key of early detection has got to be understood
Video examples
Secrets of the X...
The X chromosome, on the other hand, contains important genes for things other than sex determination or reproduction, like nervous system development, skeletal muscle function, and the receptors in the eyes that detect green light.
Video examples
Is radiation dangerous?...
At the lower end of the spectrum, there's radio, infrared, and visible light. At the higher end are ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma rays. Modern society is shaped by sending and detecting electromagnetic radiation.
Video examples
The Hot Zone: Official...
Ebola has never been detected on US soil. There's a first time for everything. I have a husband, two kids. We have a duty to protect them. You always fight so hard.
Video examples
Beaver Lodge Construction...
So important is their dam to them, that if they detect the slightest leak, usually by hearing the sound of trickling water,
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David Ignatius
American Journalist
The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.
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Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.
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María Blasco Marhuenda
Spanish Scientist
We can detect very small differences in telomere length, and it is a very simple and fast technique where many samples can be analysed at the same time. Most importantly, we are able to determine the presence of dangerous telomeres - those that are very short.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
We're at a point now where we've built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.
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Babar Azam
Pakistani Athlete
Regions' role in detecting and developing a raw talent is no secret, as they work so hard to produce top class players who go on to represent departments, then national team, and also play in different leagues of the world.
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Elizabeth Holmes
American Businessman
When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.
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Asa Hutchinson
American Lawyer
But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Margaret Cho
American Comedian
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
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Janet Yellen
American Public Servant
It's important for the Fed, hard as it is, to attempt to detect asset bubbles while they're forming.
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David Ignatius
American Journalist
The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.
Quote examples
Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.
Quote examples
María Blasco Marhuenda
Spanish Scientist
We can detect very small differences in telomere length, and it is a very simple and fast technique where many samples can be analysed at the same time. Most importantly, we are able to determine the presence of dangerous telomeres - those that are very short.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
We're at a point now where we've built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.
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Babar Azam
Pakistani Athlete
Regions' role in detecting and developing a raw talent is no secret, as they work so hard to produce top class players who go on to represent departments, then national team, and also play in different leagues of the world.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Holmes
American Businessman
When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.
Quote examples
Asa Hutchinson
American Lawyer
But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
Quote examples
Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Quote examples
Margaret Cho
American Comedian
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Quote examples
Janet Yellen
American Public Servant
It's important for the Fed, hard as it is, to attempt to detect asset bubbles while they're forming.
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