Verb

• S: (v) detect (detect%2:39:00::), observe (observe%2:39:02::), find (find%2:39:02::), discover (discover%2:39:03::), notice (notice%2:39:04::) (discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of) "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) find out (find_out%2:31:01::), catch out (catch_out%2:31:00::) (trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act) "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"
• S: (v) sense (sense%2:39:02::) (detect some circumstance or entity automatically) "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization"
• S: (v) instantiate (instantiate%2:39:00::) (find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)) "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect"
• S: (v) trace (trace%2:39:00::) (discover traces of) "She traced the circumstances of her birth"
• S: (v) see (see%2:39:11::) (observe as if with an eye) "The camera saw the burglary and recorded it"
• verb group
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) spy (spy%2:39:01::), sight (sight%2:39:00::) (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes) "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something
• Somebody ----s somebody
• Somebody ----s that CLAUSE