Crossword-Solution: DETECTOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detector | n. | One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DETECTOR | anagram | COTTERED |
We have 33 clues for the answer “DETECTOR”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| HIGH frequency rectifier (radio) | 1 answer |
| instrument used to find something | 1 answer |
| graphologist | 1 answer |
| Word after motion or smoke | 1 answer |
| Word after motion or lie | 1 answer |
| Word after "lie" or "smoke" | 1 answer |
| Mine __ (soldier's tool) | 1 answer |
| Lie or smoke follower | 1 answer |
| Lie ___ (polygraph) | 1 answer |
| Geiger counter, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Device used to sense or discover hidden things | 1 answer |
| Antimine device. | 1 answer |
| Airport security device | 1 answer |
| ASDIC | 2 answers |
| Sensing device | 2 answers |
| Sonar | 2 answers |
| Radio device | 2 answers |
| handwriting expert | 3 answers |
| Tracker | 4 answers |
| Radar, e.g. | 5 answers |
| Radio tube. | 5 answers |
| Sensor | 5 answers |
| dowser | 6 answers |
| discoverer | 8 answers |
| finder | 9 answers |
| AIRPORT SECURITY MEASURE | 11 answers |
| rectifier | 14 answers |
| Radar | 14 answers |
| Detective | 34 answers |
| Smoke ___ | 40 answers |
| Beholder | 43 answers |
| PRYING person | 53 answers |
| Lie | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETECTOR (5)
Numerous important inventions such as the crystal detector, the oscillating valve, the triode valve--have been due to private or amateur work.
Howard Armstrong inventor of the regenerative detector, super-regeneration and the supersonic heterodyne receiver, though the French claim that the superhet was first designed by Lucien Levy of Paris.
Being asked whether he did not get imposed upon with bad bank-bills, he replied that he subscribed to a bank-note detector and consulted it closely whenever a note of any size fell into his hands.
Had he then realized the full import of his discovery, all he needed was to increase the strength of the waves and to provide a very sensitive detector, like the coherer, in order to have anticipated the principal developments that came many years afterward.
Socrates in pursuit of his vocation as a detector of false knowledge, lights by accident on the truth.
Quotes with DETECTOR (3)
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
Beside me, Molly rolled her shoulders in a few jerky motions and pushed at her hair in fitful little gestures. She tugged at her well-tattered skirts, and grimaced at her boots. "Can you see if there’s any mud on them?" I paused to consider her for a second. Then I said, "You have two tattoos showing right now, and you probably used a fake ID to get them. Your piercings would set off any metal detector worth the name, and you’re featuring them in parts of your anatomy your pa…
Is there somebody out there? Amy, is that you?” her mother called.“No. Tell me this isn’t happening.” Quinn rested his forehead against hers. “Has she got a wiretap on you or something? I swear, she’s like a walking hard-on detector.” Amy bit her lip, trying not to laugh. Quinn levered himself up on his arms.“Mrs. P., if you value your life, you’ll go back inside and turn off the light right now.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, WP.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1961–2024).