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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Today, Aerobavovna is supplying tethered balloons to the Ukrainian military, which uses them near the front lines to relay radio signals and detect enemy signals.
Although Antarctica is often viewed as untouched wilderness, previous research has detected plastic fragments in fresh snow and nearby seawater.
From Science Daily
"We also detected the production of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans, which are molecules in the nervous system that respond to injury and disease."
From Science Daily
This integration allowed the researchers to detect cause-and-effect relationships among genes across the entire genome.
From Science Daily
Machine-learning tools to detect social bots, like our own Botometer, were unable to discriminate between these AI agents and human accounts in the wild.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
