English words for 'sleuthing, detective work'
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noun
noun
- someone who is a detective
- obscene terms for penis
- (countable, vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive) A contemptible or obnoxious person; a jerk; traditionally, especially, a male jerk.
- (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse with a man.
- (uncountable, US, Canada, vulgar, slang, uncommon) Absolutely nothing.
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- someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations
- Initialism of private investigator.
- the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project
- an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs
- (biochemistry) Abbreviation of phosphatidylinositol, a phospholipid component of eukaryotic cell membranes, also abbreviated in PtdIns.
- (surgery) Initialism of penile inversion.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of protease inhibitor.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyimide.
- (electronics) Initialism of power integrity.
- Initialism of personal injury.
- (automotive) Initialism of port injection (“fuel injection”).
- (informatics, SGML, XML) Initialism of processing instruction.
- (psychology) Initialism of paradoxical intention.
- (business) Initialism of pro forma invoice.
- Initialism of principal investigator (“lead researcher on a grant-funded project”).
- Initialism of parallel import.
- (fan fiction category) Initialism of pseudoincest.
- (medicine) Initialism of ponderal index.
- Abbreviation of prohibited immigrant.
- Initialism of politically incorrect (see PC).
- (Philippines, politics) Initialism of People's Initiative.
- Initialism of partial induction (see AI).
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noun
adj
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
- effective; producing a desired effect
- being in force or having or exerting force
- Effectual or important.
- Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects.
- Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious.
- Functional, in working order.
- Based upon, or consisting of, a surgical operation or operations. [from 18th c.]
noun
- an investigation seeking answers
- an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
- the examination of alternative hypotheses
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
- An attempt to find something.
- The act of searching in general.
verb
noun
- A police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence.
- (computing) A program or algorithm that collates.
- (computing, historical) A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
- A person who collates.
- a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
noun
- an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
- a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
- A police officer assigned to keep tabs on other members of the police.
- (US, railways) A device for throwing the track temporarily to one side for carrying out repairs, etc.
- A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
noun
- An investigator who watches for signs of anything unusual or suspicious.
- (pool) A secret accomplice who surreptitiously watches the competition and interferes by causing a distraction to prevent the opponent from getting a good shot.
- Something eye-catching or worth noticing.
- One who estimates or judges based on visual inspection rather than detailed analysis.
- A voyeur or inquisitive person.
- Someone who stares at another in order to intimidate them.
noun
- (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
- a police officer who investigates crimes
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
- A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
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verb
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- a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
- the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
- the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
- the detection that a signal is being received
- (electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.
- The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
noun
- the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police
- the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold
- a summary list; as in e.g. ‘a news roundup’
- The finishing of an arrangement.
- (US, agriculture) An activity in which cattle are herded together in order to be inspected, counted, branded or shipped.
- An upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel.
- The forcible gathering together of any particular group of people.
- The summary to a news bulletin.
- (law enforcement) The similar police activity of gathering together suspects.
noun
- an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
- ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke
- an instrument used to make tracings
- (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- A person who traces something.
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- (computing) A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
noun
- a police informer who implicates many people
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
verb
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
noun
- A secret informant for police.
- (psychology) A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant.
- One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
- (magic) A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience.
- (comedy) A straight man.
- a person of unquestioning obedience
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
verb
verb
noun
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.
noun
adj
noun
- A person working as an informer for the police; a nark
- (uncountable) The reddish-brown colour of copper (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (uncountable, chemistry) A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with the atomic number 29; also, the metal made up of this element.
- (spinning) A component of the cop (“conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle”) in a spinning machine.
- (countable, entomology) In full copper butterfly: any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia.
- A prisoner who informs on fellow prisoners.
- (chiefly Australia, UK) A police officer, especially one in uniform.
- a copper penny
- a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings
- a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor
adj
verb
- (US, card games) In the game of faro: to place a copper coin, or now usually a small disc or token, on (a playing card) to indicate that a player bets against that card.
- (figurative) To bet against (something).
- To coat or sheathe (something) with copper (etymology 1 sense 1).
- To give (something) a colour by applying a copper salt.
- (chiefly UK) To inform on (someone) to the police; to nark.
- (intransitive, chiefly UK) To inform on someone to the police.
- coat with a layer of copper
noun
noun
- someone who is a detective
- obscene terms for penis
- (countable, vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive) A contemptible or obnoxious person; a jerk; traditionally, especially, a male jerk.
- (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse with a man.
- (uncountable, US, Canada, vulgar, slang, uncommon) Absolutely nothing.
num
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations
- Initialism of private investigator.
- the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project
- an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs
- (biochemistry) Abbreviation of phosphatidylinositol, a phospholipid component of eukaryotic cell membranes, also abbreviated in PtdIns.
- (surgery) Initialism of penile inversion.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of protease inhibitor.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyimide.
- (electronics) Initialism of power integrity.
- Initialism of personal injury.
- (automotive) Initialism of port injection (“fuel injection”).
- (informatics, SGML, XML) Initialism of processing instruction.
- (psychology) Initialism of paradoxical intention.
- (business) Initialism of pro forma invoice.
- Initialism of principal investigator (“lead researcher on a grant-funded project”).
- Initialism of parallel import.
- (fan fiction category) Initialism of pseudoincest.
- (medicine) Initialism of ponderal index.
- Abbreviation of prohibited immigrant.
- Initialism of politically incorrect (see PC).
- (Philippines, politics) Initialism of People's Initiative.
- Initialism of partial induction (see AI).
name
noun
adj
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
- effective; producing a desired effect
- being in force or having or exerting force
- Effectual or important.
- Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects.
- Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious.
- Functional, in working order.
- Based upon, or consisting of, a surgical operation or operations. [from 18th c.]
noun
- an investigation seeking answers
- an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
- the examination of alternative hypotheses
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
- An attempt to find something.
- The act of searching in general.
verb
noun
- A police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence.
- (computing) A program or algorithm that collates.
- (computing, historical) A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
- A person who collates.
- a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
noun
- an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
- a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
- A police officer assigned to keep tabs on other members of the police.
- (US, railways) A device for throwing the track temporarily to one side for carrying out repairs, etc.
- A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
noun
- An investigator who watches for signs of anything unusual or suspicious.
- (pool) A secret accomplice who surreptitiously watches the competition and interferes by causing a distraction to prevent the opponent from getting a good shot.
- Something eye-catching or worth noticing.
- One who estimates or judges based on visual inspection rather than detailed analysis.
- A voyeur or inquisitive person.
- Someone who stares at another in order to intimidate them.
noun
- (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
- a police officer who investigates crimes
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
- A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
adj
noun
name
noun
verb
noun
- a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
- the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
- the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
- the detection that a signal is being received
- (electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.
- The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
noun
- the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police
- the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold
- a summary list; as in e.g. ‘a news roundup’
- The finishing of an arrangement.
- (US, agriculture) An activity in which cattle are herded together in order to be inspected, counted, branded or shipped.
- An upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel.
- The forcible gathering together of any particular group of people.
- The summary to a news bulletin.
- (law enforcement) The similar police activity of gathering together suspects.
noun
- an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
- ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke
- an instrument used to make tracings
- (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- A person who traces something.
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- (computing) A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
noun
- a police informer who implicates many people
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
verb
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
noun
- A secret informant for police.
- (psychology) A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant.
- One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
- (magic) A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience.
- (comedy) A straight man.
- a person of unquestioning obedience
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
verb
noun
adj
noun
- A person working as an informer for the police; a nark
- (uncountable) The reddish-brown colour of copper (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (uncountable, chemistry) A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with the atomic number 29; also, the metal made up of this element.
- (spinning) A component of the cop (“conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle”) in a spinning machine.
- (countable, entomology) In full copper butterfly: any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia.
- A prisoner who informs on fellow prisoners.
- (chiefly Australia, UK) A police officer, especially one in uniform.
- a copper penny
- a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings
- a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor
adj
verb
- (US, card games) In the game of faro: to place a copper coin, or now usually a small disc or token, on (a playing card) to indicate that a player bets against that card.
- (figurative) To bet against (something).
- To coat or sheathe (something) with copper (etymology 1 sense 1).
- To give (something) a colour by applying a copper salt.
- (chiefly UK) To inform on (someone) to the police; to nark.
- (intransitive, chiefly UK) To inform on someone to the police.
- coat with a layer of copper
verb
noun
- musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
- domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
- An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
- A black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes).
- (figurative) A diligent searcher.