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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Detect \De*tect"\ (d[-e]*t[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Detected}; p. pr & vb n. {Detecting}.]
1. To uncover; to discover; to find out to bring to light;
as to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake
in an account.
Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered
at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at
last --Burke.
Like following life through creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect. --Pope.
2. To inform against; to accuse. [Obs.]
He was untruly judged to have preached such articles
as he was detected of --Sir T. More
Syn: To discover; find out lay bare; expose.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
detecting
n : the investigation of criminal activities to determine the
perpetrator; "detection is hard on the feet" [syn: {detection},
{detective work}, {police investigation}, {sleuthing}]
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