detect

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/dɪˈtɛkt/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing. transitive
    — Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
  2. To work or solve cases as a detective. informal,intransitive
    — 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.
  3. To work as a detective. intransitive,rare
形容词 adj.
  1. Detected. not-comparable,obsolete

词形变化

detects present,singular,third-person detecting participle,present detected participle,past detected past detects present,singular,third-person detecting participle,present detected participle,past detected past

词源

词源 1
From Latin detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere (“to uncover or disclose”), from de- + tegere (“to cover”); see tegument, tile, thatch.
词源 2
Back-formation from detective.
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