| detect | | |
| v. (perception) | 1. detect, discover, find, notice, observe | discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" |
| ~ catch out, find out | trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act.; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks" |
| ~ discover, find | make a discovery, make a new finding.; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" |
| ~ sense | detect some circumstance or entity automatically.; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization" |
| ~ instantiate | find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word).; "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect" |
| ~ trace | discover traces of.; "She traced the circumstances of her birth" |
| ~ see | observe as if with an eye.; "The camera saw the burglary and recorded it" |
| ~ sight, spy | catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes.; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" |
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