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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The instrument is especially effective at detecting galaxies hidden behind thick clouds of cosmic dust.
From Science Daily
Each gravitational wave is named for the date it is detected, and the LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA team publicly announced this one in September 2025.
From Science Daily
While microplastics were frequently detected in Fiji's fish, the actual amount of plastic found in each individual fish was very low.
From Science Daily
Seismometers could detect movement of the earth’s crust far from where the instruments were actually located.
From Literature
"Instead of trying to detect what is fake, we need infrastructure that allows real content to publicly prove its origin."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
