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Definition of detect : 1. Detected.
2. To inform against; to accuse.
3. To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.

Synonyms:

happen, name, get hold, get wind, chance, get word, strike, point out, discern, unwrap, bring out, ferret out, locate, find out, happen upon, come up, respect, track, nose out, rule, detection, get a line, give away, spot, biopiracy, encounter, remark, keep, rummage, find oneself, maintain, describe, dig out, pick out, pick up, take note, distinguish, divulge, scare up, honor, fall upon, catch, empirical, break, glimpse, dissect, receive, hunt, attain, mind, mark, hear, regain, line up, acknowledge, follow, recover, chromatography, dredge, let on, spy, watch, hit, keep an eye on, descry, obtain, comment, ferret, tell, rout, root, come across, learn, abide by, come upon, note, mention, chance upon, see, ascertain, light upon, get, incur, retrieve, watch over, notice, turn up, celebrate, scout, let out, honour, run down, knowledge, chance on, invent, anatomize, key, double-blind, witness, key out, observe, bump, espy, animal rights, control

educe, identify, recognize, dig up, fathom, unriddle, solve, disclose, determine, realize, unravel, discover, elicit, breakthrough, disinter, unearth, reveal, unmask, find, expose

perceive, feel, sense

Usage examples:

• I seemed to detect in my mother's confident prophecy an allusion to Miss Pettigrew's plans. - "Lalage's Lovers 1911", George A. Birmingham.
• She is fortunate if the quick eye of a native woman does not detect her hiding- place. - "Indian Boyhood", [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman.
• He was utterly unable to detect the slightest resemblance between himself and this rather commonplace looking type of business man. - "Okewood of the Secret Service", Valentine Williams.