Detective vs Detectible - What's the difference?
detective | detectible |
(law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
Able to be detected
* Latham
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 7, author=Noam Cohen, title=Google’s Lunchtime Betting Game, work=New York Times
, passage=The other crucial finding of the report was that there was a detectible “optimism bias” among Google employees. }}
As a noun detective
is detective (police officer who looks for evidence).As an adjective detectible is
able to be detected.detective
English
(wikipedia detective)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Synonyms
* (law enforcement) DT (abbreviation), Det (abbreviation) * (person employed to find information) private detective, private investigator * (person employed to find information) dick , private dick :(slang)Derived terms
* (sense) detective constable (DC) * (sense) detective sergeant (DS) * (sense) detective inspector (DI) * (sense) detective chief inspector (DCI) * detective story * (sense) detective superintendent () * (sense) detective chief superintendent (DCS) * house detective * private detective * woman detective constable (WDC)detectible
English
Adjective
(-)- Errors detectible at a glance.
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