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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Out of twenty-eight tests in a mine working a long-wall face the Davy showed gas only eleven times, while the detecter showed it in every case.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
Being able at will to force the contents of the detecter on to the flame, the effects of an explosion inside the lamp need not be feared.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
As regards the use of the detecter with open lights, several of the foregoing advantages or modifications of them will apply.
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
"Maybe I vos been a regular bolice detecter ven I got old enough, hey?"
From The Rover Boys on the River The Search for the Missing Houseboat by Edward Stratemeyer
