Detect is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETECT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to discover or perceive
• discover or identify the presence or existence of
• discern (something intangible or barely perceptible)
• discover or investigate (a crime or its perpetrators)
• 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.
• To inform against; to accuse.
• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
• notice
ADJECTIVE:
• Detected.

Words related to DETECT

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How to use DETECT in a sentence

• It was too dark on the other side to detect any traces of a recent human presence in the thicket.
• We detect gentleness, which had escaped us, lurking about an under lip.
• The affair was at once reported to the Captain, who, incensed at the audacity of the thing, adopted every plan to detect the guilty parties.
• We cannot pretend, even here, to detect an interest in landscape or a true appreciation of country life.
• Brother and sister did not read the meaning of this course, nor could they detect its wisdom.
• There is, in short, more truth in its working for a historian to detect and to show.
• But this was very seldom, for the vigilance of slave owners was always alive to detect, and their vengeance to punish such daring felony.
• You cannot detect the approach to such a resolve in your servant, and he, perhaps, can hardly detect it in himself.
• He allowed that no detective could detect until he had all the facts.
• He saw several emigrants who had neither the vices nor the faculties necessary to detect a certain kind of villainy.
• The paper was brought to me, and I directed the overseer to endeavour to detect in future processes the cause of these beautiful specks.
• Once within the hall he listened intently, but could not detect the slightest sound within the building.
• With the aid of the glasses, he had descried the forms of his beloved and her father when the bright eyes failed to detect his own.
• She could detect good water from bad and could find forage for horses.
• He could not detect the slightest sign of anything of the kind.
• Some say it is equally difficult to detect a half-and-half mixture.
• When he came, I could hardly detect in him a whisper of life.
• She could detect more clearly now the odor of brandy on his quickening breath.
• In that exclamation she seemed to detect a tone of irony and insult.
• It was whispered that agents of the police were present to watch the countenances and actions of the spectators, with a view to detect the disaffected.
• As this was somewhat deep only a tiny bit of illumination escaped, and you could just detect that when at a certain angle.
• Fear, no doubt, gives horses an unusual sense of smell, and I have known them to detect the presence of a bear, on a favorable wind, at an incredible distance.
• I can detect that there is considerable ironical laughter mixed with its indignation.
• Hampton turned her face toward the door lest John should detect the colour mounting her temples.

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