What's the difference between det and detective?

Det


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8 What was Det Supt Stanley Beechey, a former head of the West Midlands serious crime squad, doing on the Hillsborough investigation while he had been placed on "non-operational duties"?
  • (2) Cyclooxygenase (CO:RIA) and lipoxygenase (LO;HPLC det.)
  • (3) Before PTCA, ET was positive in 49 of 52 patients (94%) and new asynergies were detected by DET in 47 of 52 patients (90%).
  • (4) Thirty-nine patients with early post-infarction angina (all with significant, angiographically assessed coronary artery disease and a baseline asynergy on 2-D echo), performed a dipyridamole-echocardiography test (DET: 2-D echo monitoring with dipyridamole infusion, 0.14 mg kg-1 min-1 for 4 min).
  • (5) This result may suggest that DET, an alpha-receptor blocker, can be used together with bronchodilators such as beta-receptor stimulator for the treatment of various chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.
  • (6) "It turns out Mr Lewis's account contradicts the hearsay evidence attributed to Det Sgt Maberly.
  • (7) Among the derivatives of phage P7::r-det we found one which carried two copies of the r-det as inverted repeats and which also contained the P7 genome segment between them in inverted orientation.
  • (8) Det Supt John is heading a small team from Dyfed-Powys headquarters in Carmarthenshire.
  • (9) To assess whether the different mechanical effects of intravenous dipyridamole were correlated with the location and distribution of the coronary arteries stenosis, 98 patients underwent high dose DET 8-10 days after an acute myocardial infarction.
  • (10) Criteria of positivity for DET were transient dyssynergy absent or negligible in the baseline examination and exercise testing for an ST segment shift greater than 0.1 mV from baseline.
  • (11) DET positivity was related to the detection of a new transient asynergy of contraction either in infarct area or in remote zones.
  • (12) In a subset of nine patients with a positive DET in the infarct zone or adjacent segments, DET and a control coronary angiography were repeated 1-3 months after an angiographically successful (residual stenosis, 50% or less) coronary angioplasty in the IRV.
  • (13) In conclusion, DHT is feasible in all patients and--if compared to DET--has the same specificity.
  • (14) DET also showed a variable enhancement of NMDA receptor whole-cell currents in some neurons, suggesting polyamine agonist-like properties.
  • (15) DET yielded interpretable studies in all 55 patients (100%); EET yielded only 40 such studies (73%) (p less than 0.01).
  • (16) Speaking after the verdict Det Sup Nick Wallen, from West Yorkshire Police, said Mair had never had so much as a conversation with the police.
  • (17) Thus, DET may provide a clinically useful tool for assessing in the individual the organic 'ceiling' of coronary reserve, by eliminating the variability in coronary tone, which may affect EST reproducibility and the correct evaluation of the impairment of organic coronary reserve.
  • (18) The results showed that reperfusion after 15 min global myocardial ischemia caused a significant decrease VFT and ERP, and an increase in VP and DET.
  • (19) Det Ch Insp James Hahn, of Thames Valley police, said: "Clearly this has been a very emotive case, that has caused additional distress and suffering for families who have been trying to cope with the loss of loved ones.
  • (20) Thus, independent of all factors that can affect the performance of each test (operator, patient and instrumentation), DET was significantly more feasible than EET, with comparable sensitivity and specificity.

Detective


Definition:

  • (a.) Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
  • (n.) One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
  • (2) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (3) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
  • (4) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
  • (5) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
  • (6) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (7) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
  • (8) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
  • (9) Oligoclonal bands were not detected in any of the sera or CSF.
  • (10) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
  • (11) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
  • (12) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
  • (13) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
  • (14) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
  • (15) Mycobacterial DNA was detected in 11 of the 22 biopsies.
  • (16) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (17) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
  • (18) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
  • (19) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
  • (20) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.

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