detectest

Verb

detect (third-person singular simple present detects, present participle detecting, simple past and past participle detected)

1. (transitive) To discover or notice, especially by careful search, examination, or probing.
   • The forensic examiners detected tiny traces of the poison on the suspect's gloves.
2. (informal, intransitive) To work or solve cases as a detective.
   • Parker would in all likelihood have done so; he was paid to detect and to do nothing else, and neither his natural gifts nor his education (at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School) prompted him to stray into side-tracks at the beck of an ill-regulated imagination.1926, Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey; 2), T. Fisher Unwin, →ISBN, page 105

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