Metal-detect

Quick meaning: Metal-detect is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To use a metal detector to find metal objects on the surface or buried underground.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To use a metal detector to find metal objects on the surface or buried underground.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To make (someone) pass through a metal detector to detect concealed metal objects.

Example Sentences

“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.

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.

Word Forms

• metal-detects
• metal-detecting
• metal-detected

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