metal-detect

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To use a metal detector to find metal objects on the surface or buried underground. ambitransitive
    — Flowerdew has three known cemeteries, containing Woodland Indians, 1620s colonists and enslaved individuals from about 1760. All three are in the area metal-detected last March. […] At the Little Bighorn Battlefield, in Montana, volunteers have used their metal-detecting machines to pinpoint artifacts, whose position rewrote the story of Custer’s Last Stand.
  2. To make (someone) pass through a metal detector to detect concealed metal objects. transitive
    — “They’re testing you,” she said to her son, James, after she was finally cleared, metal-detected and led upstairs to the visiting room, a spare, linoleum-floored space inside the hospital’s high-security building.

词形变化

metal-detects present,singular,third-person metal-detecting participle,present metal-detected participle,past metal-detected past

词源

Back-formation from metal detector.
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