Detect vs Conceal - What's the difference?
detect | conceal |
(obsolete) Detected.
(lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
As verbs the difference between detect and conceal
is that detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing while conceal is (lb) to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.As an adjective detect
is (obsolete) detected.detect
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Derived terms
* detection * detective * detectorSee also
* discover * find * stumble uponAdjective
(-)- (Fabyan)