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10 Language-to-English DictionariesDetailed Proposal
A comprehensive and thorough plan or suggestion put forward for consideration or discussion.
Details
An individual feature, fact, or item.
Detain
To keep someone in custody or to delay someone from proceeding.
Detainment
The action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody.
Detect
To discover or identify the presence or existence of something.
Detecting
To discover or identify the presence or existence of something.
Detection
The action or process of identifying the presence of something hidden, obscure, or hard to notice.
Detection dog
A dog that has been trained to detect specific substances or items, such as drugs, explosives, or certain medical conditions.
Detective
A person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.
Detector
A device or instrument that detects the presence of a particular substance or condition.
Detention
The act of keeping someone in a specific place, often as a form of punishment or for legal reasons.
Deter
To discourage someone from doing something, typically by instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.