detect

«detect» in Mova's school dictionary: hard to see, hear or smell — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (detect, detects, detected, detecting); nouns detection, detector, detective

meaning for a pupil

1) To notice or discover something that is hard to see, hear or smell. tree →

2) To find something using a special tool or test (detect smoke, detect metal). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: instruments detect things we can't sense (radiation, sound waves); our senses detect light and sound. In safety: smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms detect danger. In stories: detectives detect clues.

examples

• The smoke alarm detected the burnt toast. tree →
• Dogs can detect smells we can't. tree →
• Scientists detected water on Mars. tree →
• I detected a hint of sadness in his voice. tree →
• The scanner detects metal in bags. tree →
• Bats detect insects using echoes. tree →
• The Sultan could not detect any difference between them, and he told his aunt that he would not be so cruel as to kill all three. tree →

note

Nouns: detector (machine), detective (person), detection (the act). Check smoke detectors work by pressing the test button.

In the corpora

• Menthol in mint switches on the nerve sensors that detect cold, so the mouth feels cool though it is not colder.
• If a pop-up says «Virus detected!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «detect» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.