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Detect vs Detext - What's the difference?

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Detect is a see also of detext.


As verbs the difference between detect and detext

is that detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing while detext is (rare) to extract or remove from a text.

As an adjective detect

is (obsolete) detected.

detect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing

    • Derived terms

    * detection * detective * detector

    See also

    * discover * find * stumble upon

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Detected.
    • (Fabyan)

    External links

    * *

    detext

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To extract or remove from a text
  • * {{quote-book, 1988, , editor=Peter Masson, Indiana 11, page=14 citation
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    Usage notes

    * This word is first found in print in English in Henry Cockeram's 1623 English Dictionary , with the meaning "unwoven". This is not known to have ever occurred in use, and appears to be unrelated to the modern term.

    See also

    * detect

    Anagrams

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