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Beholding vs Detection - What's the difference?

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Beholding is a related term of detection.


As nouns the difference between beholding and detection

is that beholding is the act by which something is beheld while detection is detection.

As a verb beholding

is .

As an adjective beholding

is .

beholding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 1612 , Shakespeare, Henry VIII , V, 5
    • I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor,
    And your good brethren, I am much beholding ;
    I have received much honour by your presence,
    And ye shall find me thankful.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.
  • * Fuller
    • So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is beheld.
  • * Robert Trail
    • But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.

    detection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
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    • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=10/6 citation , passage=“Why should Eldridge commit murder?
  • The finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like, mostly by means of a specific device or method.