1.He thought he detected an unusually large woman shouldering her way through the crowd.
英：[dɪ'tektɪd]
美：[dɪ'tektɪd]
verb
transitive verb
to discover the true character of
detecting drug smugglers
to discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of Do I detect a note of sarcasm in your voice?
detect alcohol in the blood
demodulate
intransitive verb
to work as a detective
spotted
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Middle English, from Latin detectus, past participle of detegere to uncover, detect, from de- + tegere to cover — more at thatch
The first known use of detect was in 1574
detectverb
to discover the nature, existence, presence, or fact of
detect the approach of an airplane
1.He thought he detected an unusually large woman shouldering her way through the crowd.
2.The man’s probing eyes searched me bottom to top, and I detected disgust as he sighted my scar.
3.These were first detected in 1992 by the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, or COBE, at a level of about one part in a hundred thousand.
4.It was he who detected my plaguing hunger and suggested to me a way to earn some money.
5.Over the following days, however, I came to learn not to be surprised by such remarks from my employer, and would smile in the correct manner whenever I detected the bantering tone in his voice.
6.At first he called only for help—the second night he must have had some delirium, he talked with his wife and his children, we often detected the name Elise.
7.I thought I detected a slight foreign accent.
8.She swore she detected sugar in the milk.
9.This type of cancer is difficult to detect in its early stages.
10.A fourth apartment at first looked ideal, but Bobby detected something “wrong with the air.”
11.Dill detected the trace of uncertainty in her voice, much as she may have tried to mask it.
12.Her face seemed less angry and I thought I even detected some remorse.
13.I thought I detected a glimmer of sadness in his eyes, a real kind of pain, but just as quickly, it was gone, replaced by his usual confident expression.
14.“Give it time,” Arturo told me later that night when he detected the disappointment in my voice.
15.Yet in that glare I sometimes detected a flicker of approval, as if this streak of independence, this refusal to be shaped by him reflected his own obstinance.
16.He even thought that he had detected sympathetic expressions on the faces of a couple of councilmen, too.
17.I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.
我觉察出他说的话略带恶意.
18.The remnants of that fireball, the cosmic background radiation, emanating from all parts of the sky can be detected by radio telescopes today.
19.The disease was detected during a routine check-up.
这个病是在做常规体检时查出来的。
20.He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature’s requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
hunt (down or up)
scout (up)
root (out)
scare up
