- detection, detecting, detective work, sleuthing - a police investigation to determine the perpetrator; "detection is hard on the feet"
--1 is a kind of police work, police investigation
Derived form: verb detect1
- detect, observe, find, discover, notice - 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"
--1 is one way to sight
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun detection2, noun detector3, noun detector1, noun detecting1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE