metal-detect
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To use a metal detector to find metal objects on the surface or buried underground.
verb
To make (someone) pass through a metal detector to detect concealed metal objects.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "“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."
Etymology
Back-formation from metal detector.