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Detection vs Heed - What's the difference?

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Detection is a related term of heed.


As nouns the difference between detection and heed

is that detection is detection while heed is heathen, pagan or heed can be heath.

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.

    • heed

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Careful attention.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

    Usage notes

    * Often used with give, pay or take.

    Synonyms

    * (careful attention) attention, notice, observation, regard

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  • * Dryden
    • With pleasure Argus the musician heeds .
  • * 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, " Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
    • Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
  • (archaic) To pay attention, care.