detective

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
2. A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.

Adj

Employed in detecting.

Conceptos

detective

🕵️

detective

🕵️

cara detective

policíaco

detective de policía

detective privado

confidente

investigador

Sinónimos

investigator

spy

sleuth

tec

inspector

hawkshaw

gumshoe

secret agent

police detective

fink

inquirer

intelligence agent

op

plain-clothes man

policeman

👮‍♂️

police spy

privacy

private detective

private eye

probing

Richard

scout

secrecy

secret

㊙️

shamus

snoop

snooper

split

spook

trap

🪤

wiretapper

plainclothesman

plain-clothesman

secret policeman

cops-and-robbers

agent

private dick

beagle

bloodhound

dee

demon

dick

eavesdropper

examiner

eye

👁️

Traducciones

détective

🕵️

Detektiv

detetive

🕵️

investigatore

🕵️

detective

detectiu

🕵️

rechercheur

speurder

🕵️

enquêteur

detective

ντετέκτιβ

μυστικός πράκτορας

Privatdetektiv

Kriminalbeamter

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dɪˈtɛktɪv/

Etimología (Inglés)

The adjective is from Classical Latin dētēct-, past participial stem of dētegō (“to detect”), + -ive. The noun is an ellipsis of detective policeman, detective officer, or a similar construction.

Oraciones

He also wrote a play and several detective novels .

I'm reading a fascinating detective story .

Estoy leyendo una fascinante historia de detectives.

The detective untangles a web of robberies , lies and murder .

Kitano plays detective Azuma, a " Dirty Harry " -type who uses violent methods when confronting criminals .

Kitano interpreta al detective Azuma, un tipo de "Harry Dirty" que utiliza métodos violentos al confrontar criminales.