In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
detects
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detect
• dectets
Source: Wiktionary
De*tect", a. Etym: [L. detectus, p. p. of detegere to uncover, detect; de + tegere to cover. See Tegument.]
Definition: Detected. [Obs.] Fabyan.
De*tect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detected; p. pr. & vb. n. Detecting.]
1. To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account. Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.
2. To inform against; to accuse. [Obs.] He was untruly judged to have preached such articles as he was detected of. Sir T. More.
Syn.
– To discover; find out; lay bare; expose.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.