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noun

a member of the police force or a private investigator whose function is to obtain information and evidence, as of offenses against the law.

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adjective

of or pertaining to detection or detectives: a detective story.

serving to detect; detecting: various detective devices.

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Origin:
1830–40; detect + -ive

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Batman began as the ultimate detective and became the ultimate renegade.

Even guessing at its scope requires economic detective work.

While the label may still apply, pioneering dental detective work has revealed unexpected news about the species' dietary variety.

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Batman began as the ultimate detective and became the ultimate renegade.

Even guessing at its scope requires economic detective work.

While the label may still apply, pioneering dental detective work has revealed unexpected news about the species' dietary variety.

Each lesson will be devoted to an observation culled from among the many exploits of the great detective.

Thus, this genealogical detective story also becomes part memoir, part family chronicle and part history lesson.

Electronic device would play audio clues while your detective chased the thief around the board.

It is the grist for irrational conspiratorial thinking as well as the food for good detective work.

In his spare time, mostly before breakfast, he writes bestselling detective thrillers.

Do some digital detective work to find the origin of each spice or herb.

So it is real fun detective work and the kids seem to really enjoy it too.

But any detective will tell you that a database is only as good as the data it contains.

Yes, this sometimes requires a little detective work.

As a child, she was diagnosed with diabetes and told it would scupper her dream of becoming a detective.

Poe pioneered the psychological horror story, the detective story, and the emerging genre of science fiction.

Photo detective work could solve an enigma nearly nine decades old.

You're a detective at a crime scene with no visible evidence.

Such detective work keeps the company's mapping database up to date.

It became a biological detective story," he remembers.

After all, the master detective never takes the world for what it is at first glance.

The detective sergeant in charge of the case did not believe in space visitors.

The supermarket is where the wise travel detective heads to investigate these and other cultural mysteries.

I'll lay out this fascinating detective story here, and you can cast your vote in our online poll.

Only after the victim hired a private detective did the truth emerge.

IN a wide range of business activities the private detective has come to be a regular employe.

Do the necessary detective work to comment specifically on some positive contributions they made on the job.

Meet a detective who swims with great white sharks.

Play a sleuth with your portrait detective and historian guides.

MySpace profiles are searchable, and with little detective work you can probably find your offspring if they are participating.

Speriglio, a tireless private detective with an unquenchable thirst for.

The hunting down of global enemy number one came about through the type of detective work and on-the-ground stealth.

But re-creating centuries-old formulas takes some detective work.

Curious bloggers have used their detective skills to track down the girl's whereabouts:.

By contrast, the detection of the red supergiant shock breakout relied on diligent detective work.

It does take persistence and the willingness to be a detective about what is causing your problems.

Robot as a police detective investigating a murder allegedly committed by a bot.

No machine-not even a robot or motion detector-can match the performance of a canine detective.

Such impacts will probably be demonstrated at some future date, but two factors make this kind of detective work difficult.

Sasha is so soft-spoken he seems shy, when in fact he is a homicide detective who weighs his words.

He was smug, rude and he was right far too often for an amateur detective among professionals.

It might be a sleazy tabloid journalist, a stalker or the detective employed by your estranged wife.

Follow the ongoing detective work as scientists unearth new clues and piece together clearer pictures of this golden age.

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detective (dɪˈtɛktɪv)

—n
1.	a. a police officer who investigates crimes
	b. See private detective
	c. (as modifier): a detective story

—*adj*
2.	used in or serving for detection
3.	serving to detect

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Word Origin & History

detective

1850, short for detective police, from detective (adj.), 1843, from detect.

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