SLEUTHING

detection, detecting, detective work, sleuthing

(noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator; “detection is hard on the feet”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

sleuthing

present participle of sleuth

Noun

sleuthing (plural sleuthings)

detective work

Source: Wiktionary


SLEUTH

Sleuth, n. Etym: [Icel. sloedh. See Slot a track.]

Definition: The track of man or beast as followed by the scent. [Scot.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

13 February 2025

BREAK

(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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