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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"word": "déceler"
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"word": "entdecken"
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"code": "io",
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"code": "io",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "des-vel-izar"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "individuare"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "rilevare"
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "kenshutsu-suru",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "検出する"
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "mitsukeru",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "見付ける"
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"code": "km",
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"roman": "rɔɔk khəəñ",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "រកឃើញ"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chatda",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "찾다"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "tamjihada",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "탐지하다"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "susaekhada",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "수색하다"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "dētegō"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "hopu"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "wykryć"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "wykrywać"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obnarúživatʹ",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "обнару́живать"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "obnarúžitʹ",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vyjavljátʹ",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "выявля́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výjavitʹ",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "otkriti"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "upptäcka"
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"code": "ta",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "கண்டுபிடி"
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"ref": "1926, Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey; 2), T. Fisher Unwin, page 105",
"text": "Parker would in all likelihood have done so; he was paid to detect and to do nothing else, and neither his natural gifts nor his education (at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School) prompted him to stray into side-tracks at the beck of an ill-regulated imagination.",
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"ref": "1978, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, Michael Turner, transl., Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin), Egmont, published 2012, page 45",
"text": "Let me introduce myself: Mike MacAdam, hotel detective. / H-how d-’you do? / Mind if I begin detecting?",
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"ref": "1991, Hillary Waugh, Hillary Waugh's Guide to Mysteries & Mystery Writing Novel, Writer's Digest Books, page 11",
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"ref": "2019 May 9, Ben Kenigsberg, “'Pokémon Detective Pikachu' Review: A Cat and (Electric) Mouse Game”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-17",
"text": "That aversion is tested when he teams up with Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds), his father's detecting partner, after the father appears to have been killed in an accident.",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "bespeuren"
},
{
"code": "sq",
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"word": "zbuloj"
},
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"word": "كَشَفَ"
},
{
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"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "dhora pelüa",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "ধৰা পেলোৱা"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otkrivam",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "откривам"
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{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "намирам"
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"word": "detectar"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "察覺"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chájué",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "察觉"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"word": "發覺"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "发觉"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "覺察"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "juéchá",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "objevit"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "najít"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "detecteren"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "tuvastama"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "havaita"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "huomata"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "déceler"
},
{
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "entdecken"
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"code": "he",
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"roman": "gilá",
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"code": "he",
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"code": "he",
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"roman": "khasáf",
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"word": "חשף"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "felfedez"
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{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "des-kovrar"
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{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "des-vel-izar"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "individuare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "rilevare"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kenshutsu-suru",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "検出する"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mitsukeru",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "見付ける"
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{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "rɔɔk khəəñ",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "រកឃើញ"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chatda",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "찾다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "tamjihada",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "탐지하다"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "susaekhada",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "수색하다"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "dētegō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "hopu"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "wykryć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "wykrywać"
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "обнару́живать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "obnarúžitʹ",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "вы́явить"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "otkriti"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "detectar"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "upptäcka"
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{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "kaṇṭupiṭi",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "கண்டுபிடி"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vyjavljaty",
"sense": "to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing",
"word": "виявляти"
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"ref": "1926, Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey; 2), T. Fisher Unwin, page 105",
"text": "Parker would in all likelihood have done so; he was paid to detect and to do nothing else, and neither his natural gifts nor his education (at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School) prompted him to stray into side-tracks at the beck of an ill-regulated imagination.",
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"ref": "1978, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, Michael Turner, transl., Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin), Egmont, published 2012, page 45",
"text": "Let me introduce myself: Mike MacAdam, hotel detective. / H-how d-’you do? / Mind if I begin detecting?",
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"ref": "1991, Hillary Waugh, Hillary Waugh's Guide to Mysteries & Mystery Writing Novel, Writer's Digest Books, page 11",
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"ref": "2019 May 9, Ben Kenigsberg, “'Pokémon Detective Pikachu' Review: A Cat and (Electric) Mouse Game”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-17",
"text": "That aversion is tested when he teams up with Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds), his father's detecting partner, after the father appears to have been killed in an accident.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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