Detective vs Superdetective - What's the difference?
detective | superdetective |
(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.
An extremely skillful or dedicated detective
*{{quote-book, 2002, , The End of the Marriage
, passage=A guy shoots himself and you drive all the way up here like some goddamned superdetective .}}
As nouns the difference between detective and superdetective
is that detective is detective (police officer who looks for evidence) while superdetective is an extremely skillful or dedicated detective.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)superdetective
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