English Etymology From Latin detectus detegere ( “ to uncover or disclose ” ) , from de- tegere ( “ to cover ” ) ; see tegument tile thatch
Pronunciation Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /dɪˈtɛkt/ Rhymes: -ɛkt Verb detect (third-person singular simple present detects present participle detecting simple past and past participle detected
to discover or find by careful search , examination , or probing Derived terms Descendants Translations to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
Arabic: كَشَفَ ( kašafa )
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Assamese: ধৰা পেলোৱা ( dhora pelüa )
Bulgarian: откривам (bg) ( otkrivam ) , намирам (bg) ( namiram )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: detectar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 察覺 ／ 察觉 (zh) ( chájué ) , 察觉 (zh) ( chájué ) , 發覺 ／ 发觉 (zh) ( fājué ) , 发觉 (zh) ( fājué ) , 覺察 ／ 觉察 (zh) ( juéchá ) , 觉察 (zh) ( juéchá )
Czech: odhalit (cs) , objevit (cs) , najít (cs) , detekovat (cs)
Dutch: detecteren (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: tuvastama
Finnish: havaita (fi) , huomata (fi)
French: déceler (fr) , détecter (fr)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: entdecken (de)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: felfedez (hu)
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Ido: des-kovrar des-vel-izar
Italian: individuare (it)
Japanese: 検出する ( kenshutsu-suru ) , 見付ける (ja) ( mitsukeru )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 찾다 (ko) ( chatda ) , 탐지하다 ( tamjihada ) , 수색하다 (ko) ( susaekhada )
Latin: dētegō
Maori: hopu
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: wykryć (pl) , wykrywać (pl)
Portuguese: detectar (pt)
Romanian: detecta (ro)
Russian: обнару́живать (ru) ( obnarúživatʹ ) , обнару́жить (ru) ( obnarúžitʹ ) , выявля́ть (ru) ( vyjavljátʹ ) , вы́явить (ru) ( výjavitʹ )
Serbo-Croatian: otkriti (sh)
Spanish: detectar (es)
Swedish: upptäcka (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
See also Adjective detect (not comparable )
( obsolete ) (Can we find and add a quotation of Fabyan to this entry?) Further reading “detect ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC “detect ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC Anagrams