detect
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /dɪˈtɛkt/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
— 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.
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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.
- To work as a detective.
形容词 adj.
- Detected.
词汇关系
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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