detect
verb (used with object)
to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act.
detecter
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a word derived from
detect.
Example Sentences
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For the reasons given, I venture to submit that the difficulties and dangers I have mentioned will be largely reduced, if not wholly overcome, by the use of the fire-damp detecter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
The lamp can be kept in a pure atmosphere while the sample is obtained by the detecter, and at a greater height than the flame in a safety-lamp could be properly distinguished.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
Langbaine, the great detecter of plagiarism, is silent.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
The detecter tube, although protected by two thicknesses of gauze, admits of this being done by the use of a special form of valve turned by the mouthpiece of the detecter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
The use of the detecter will permit the further protection of the present tin shield lamp, by an extra thickness of gauze, if such addition is found advantageous in resisting an increased velocity.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
