Definition: 1. To discover or notice something, especially something that is not easy to see, hear, etc. 2. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
Use 'detect' in a sentence:
1. I detect an undercurrent of resentment towards the new proposals.
2. British researchers claim that a routine eye test carried out by your optician could detect Alzheimer's up to 20 years before any symptoms show.
3. She has detected the secret.
4. Their antennae and shells help them to detect and protect the security of themselves.
5. Your sense of smell can also help you detect weather changes.
6. Their instruments detected very faint radiowaves at a frequency of 3 kilohertz.
7. He conjectured that some individuals may be able to detect major calamities.
8. This gives rats the ability to detect slight smells.
9. In school, we never give a child a chance to detect his mistakes.
10. You know that Snort is an intrusion detection system, but how does it detect intrusion?
11. An observant doctor can often detect depression from expression, posture, and movement.
12. The patrol can detect if something is going down or is about to go down.
13. Mistakes should be corrected as soon as detected.
14. Radars used to track storms can detect water in the atmosphere only once it has condensed into clouds or raindrops.
15. An animal that can't detect danger can't stay alive.
16. Another thing it uses ultrasound to detect is the size and shape of objects.
17. But in school, we never give a child a chance to detect his mistakes.
18. They've developed these sensors that can detect tiny amounts of ethylene.
19. How can scientists detect a particle that interacts so infrequently with other matter?
20. Garter snakes detect a chemical signal from earthworms—one of their favorite foods—via the VNO, and they use this signal to track their prey.
21. His smile had no heart in it, but few eyes were near enough or sharp enough to detect that.
22. As we eat, specialised receptors in the back of the nose detect the air molecules in our meals.
23. Most skin cancers are completely curable if detected in the early stages.
24. Dr. Peter Kastl and his colleagues report that they can use tears to detect drug abuse.
25. He detected a note of excitement in her voice.
26. For example, doctors did not have devices allowing them to go inside the human body to detect health problems or to perform delicate surgery.
27. I detected a note of pity in her voice.
28. This time he thought he could detect colicky symptoms, and he began to encourage them with considerable hope.
29. They were detected at depths of more than a kilometre in the sea.
30. How can you detect a liar through text messages?
31. The policemen trained their dogs to detect drugs.
32. You can detect namely our productions are of high quality.
33. We are trying to detect and understand how the climates change.
34. It is difficult to detect the cause of his death.
35. Arnold could detect a certain sadness in the old man's face.
36. They will detect us the same way you did.
37. A build-up of strain on a section of the San Andreas Fault has been detected.
38. They can detect ultrasound; this means that when a bat approaches, the moth can detect the bat's presence.
39. The latest Japanese vacuum cleaners contain sensors that detect the amount of dust and type of floor.
40. It is text that enables us to "uncover lies, confusions and overgeneralizations, and to detect abuses of logic and common sense."
41. He detected the fallacy of her argument.
42. Any escape, once it's detected, sets off the alarm.
43. The final electronic warfare suite will detect, analyze, evaluate, and react to EW threats fielded by potential adversaries.
44. The disease was detected during a routine check-up.
45. He detected a ship moving down the starboard side of the submarine.
46. To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
47. Do I detect a note of criticism?
48. These data show that most cancers are detected as a result of clinical follow-up.
49. I can detect signs of improvement in your thinking.
50. An infra-red eye is said to detect the movement of any animal within an angle of 110 degrees at up to 10 metres.
51. Although the fluid presents no symptoms to the patient, its presence can be detected by a test.
52. The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof.
53. The tests are designed to detect the disease early.
54. Each of the preceding techniques provides the researcher with evidence that the infant can detect or discriminate between stimuli.
55. The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early.
