| 单词 | private detective |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprivate detective One whose occupation it is to discover matters artfully concealed; particularly (and in the original application as short for detective policeman, or the like) a member of the police force employed to investigate specific cases, or to watch particular suspected individuals or classes of offenders. private detective, one not belonging to the police force, who in his private capacity, or as attached to a Detective Agency or Bureau, undertakes similar services for persons employing him. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [noun] > person conducting searchera1382 inseerc1438 intracer?a1475 inquisitor?1504 investigator1538 peruser1549 tracer1552 scrutineer1557 examinant1587 revisitor1594 examiner?1608 examinator1612 researcher1615 indagator1620 ferret1629 pryer1674 probator1691 disquisitor1766 grubber1776 prober1777 grubbler1813 detective1850 expiscator1882 society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > detective plant1812 plain clothes1822 detective1850 plainclothesman1856 mouser1863 D.1869 sleuth1872 tec1879 dee1882 demon1889 sleuth-hound1890 split1891 fink1903 hawkshaw1903 busy1904 dick1905 gumshoe1913 Richard1914 shamus1925 cozzer1950 Five-O1983 1850 W. H. Wills Mod. Sci. Thief-taking in Househ. Words 13 July 368/1 To each division of the Force is attached two officers, who are denominated ‘detectives’. 1850 W. H. Wills Mod. Sci. Thief-taking in Househ. Words 13 July 369/1 The two Detectives of the X division. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxv. 251 Detective Mr. Bucket. 1856 Ann. Reg. 185 Some London detectives were despatched, to give their keen wits to the search. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. Pref. p. xv There are critical detectives on the track of every author. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 39 Your mere detective is wonderful at suspicion and discovery, but when he has to do with good men he is at fault, foolishly imagining that everyone is as bad as himself. 1876 D. R. Fearon School Inspection §59. 90 If the inspector is to be anything more than a mere detective of faults. private detective private detective n. a detective who is engaged privately, as opposed to a member of an official police or security force. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [noun] > private detection > person engaged in private detective1857 eye1874 Pinkerton1877 ferret1891 consultant1894 private investigator1894 Sherlock Holmes1896 operative1901 Sherlock1903 Sherlockian1903 Pink1904 peeper1908 private dick1912 op1924 shamus1925 private eye1938 PI1953 peep1974 1857 Chicago Tribune 27 June 1/3 Now if, instead of making indirect charges against private detectives,..the Mayor would employ some effective means to catch the burglars [etc.]. 1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter ii. 31 A private detective, ready to peer into anybody's cupboards and gimletise anybody's doors. 1936 A. Christie ABC Murders v. 38 ‘Then you're not—anything to do with the police, sir?’ ‘I am a private detective.’ 1995 Independent 23 Nov. 12/7 The authority and the insurers said they would continue to use private detectives to examine claims. < as lemmas |
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