Associations to the word «Detecting»

Wiktionary

DETECT, verb. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing
DETECT, adjective. (obsolete) Detected.

Dictionary definition

DETECT, verb. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope