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Detect vs Surveil - What's the difference?

detect | surveil |

As verbs the difference between detect and surveil

is that detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing while surveil is (nonstandard) to keep someone or something under surveillance.

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)

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    surveil

    English

    Verb

  • (nonstandard) To keep someone or something under surveillance.
  • :The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled .
  • ::Alexandre of London v. Indem. Ins. Co., 182 F. Supp. 748, 750 (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) (1960), cited in Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001) p. 861