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Definition of sleuth in English: sleuthnoun sluːθsluθ informal A detective. 侦探 they make MI5 look like a bunch of amateur sleuths Example sentencesExamples - For years, the discovery was kept a strict secret until the amateur sleuths who uncovered the bodies officially announced their grisly find in 1991.
- The sleuth is usually an amateur or a consulting detective.
- Psycho - biographical sleuths speculated endlessly as to the psychological triggers and real-life passion which might have inspired her novel.
- Both sides accused each other of corporate espionage, with the city pages of the press full of stories about what corporate sleuths and gumshoes get up to on their clients' behalf.
- The amateur sleuth in me is immediately very excited.
- While the amateur sleuths try to piece together the femme fatale's recent past, Betty is gradually drawn into Rita's shadowy world.
- But instead of tracking spies, these sleuths are out to expose surly salespeople to improve the country's standards of customer service.
- It presents cases that have baffled police - and which are unlikely to ever be resolved - for amateur sleuths to examine.
- Civilian sleuths are being sought by Essex Police to work alongside detectives in major investigations.
- Anyone of you amazing sleuths care to try this one?
- But amateur Internet sleuths who read the blog searched electronic databases looking for likely suspects, then posted names and photographs on the Internet.
- It is one of the world's most baffling puzzles, the bane of professional cryptologists and amateur sleuths who have spent 15 years trying to solve it.
- But in the meantime, if any amateur or professional sleuths are inclined to start digging, they might find some very interesting answers.
- Equally convenient is the fact that Johnston's neighbour Winston is an amateur sleuth.
- Fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes is credited with first realising the value of soil in criminal investigations.
- An amateur psychologist as well as a sleuth, O'Neill will not be so easily taken in.
- Super sleuth children put their detective skills to the test to solve a murder.
- Corporate tax sleuths got hold of this and are now using it in a convoluted way to avoid U.S. taxes altogether on profits they make from foreign operations.
- Amateur sleuths will be needed to solve a murder most foul at Marble Hill and Chiswick House this weekend.
- Amateur sleuths will be able to record footage of gang ringleaders and other yobs in action, which can then be used by police as evidence in court.
Synonyms private detective, detective, private investigator, investigator British enquiry agent informal private eye, PI, snoop, sleuth-hound North American informal private dick, dick, peeper, shamus, gumshoe informal, dated hawkshaw, sherlock North American dated Pinkerton
verb sluːθsluθ [no object]often as noun sleuthinginformal 1Carry out a search or investigation in the manner of a detective. 探究；侦查；调查 scientists began their genetic sleuthing for honey mushrooms four years ago 四年前，科学家开始了对蜜环菌的基因探究。 Example sentencesExamples - As an organizational agnostic with no agenda, a coach can move up and down the ranks, sleuthing out the shadow culture - all the subtextual undercurrents driving the company that are never talked about.
- In New York there's sleuthing for clues about a woman with long black hair and a frantic discussion of what might have happened to her.
- Carpenter has tapped one of his officers who previously expressed an interest in computer sleuthing to specialize in cyber crimes.
- Les Vasey used to be a top Bradford policeman, sleuthing out villains, but since his retirement ten years ago his target has been the rise in sexually transmitted diseases.
- Isabel, morally obliged to act, starts sleuthing.
- Students across the country are sleuthing around schools to see if they're using the right lightbulbs for energy efficiency or recycling to save landfill space.
- After his interesting encounter at the auto shop, Carl was already not looking forward to more sleuthing.
- Carson, her father, had once been a district attorney and this blonde American teenager had a natural ability for sleuthing.
- In fact, some of my favorite things are vintage finds that my husband, Don, and I sleuthed out while on trips to out-of-the-way shops or during stolen afternoons at our local haunts.
- A series of grisly killings in the slums of the old town district had gone unsolved for so long that my expertise was once again required to sleuth out the culprit.
- But as the body count rises and thefts occur, the ship's crew begs for Elsa to get involved - and the naturally curious writer can't help but start sleuthing.
- ‘What drew me to dance history,’ Jowitt remarked, ‘was a very old-fashioned sense of how wonderful it was to sleuth.’
- ‘You and Mr. Mackenzie seem to be familiar with crime sleuthing,’ Moretti remarked levelly.
- Solving mysteries and diagnosing patients both require sleuthing, she says.
- With a little more sleuthing, I found out who owned the domain name.
- Where would that leave old-fashioned sleuthing?
- They've singled out rising stars to watch and sleuthed for bargain events.
- 1.1dated with object Investigate (someone or something)
〈旧〉调查 Example sentencesExamples - In reality it was not merely because a certain police detective was a racist and enjoyed sleuthing a popular boxer.
- It's the tale of two contemporary literary academics sleuthing their way into a long lost love affair, and is utterly laden with coincidence.
- The lawsuit has complicated efforts to sleuth the chain of events at the building.
- A week later he sleuthed out a possible explanation: Without intending to, William Finnegan has clarified one of the mysteries of the U.S. government's visa war against foreign artists.
- But my mother and I, an unbeatable cross-country sleuthing duo, put a stop to the madness in less than two hours.
OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense 'track', in sleuth-hound): from Old Norse slóth; compare with slot2. Current senses date from the late 19th century. A sleuth was first a sleuth-hound, a type of bloodhound employed in medieval Scotland for pursuing game or tracking fugitives. A tracker or detective has been a sleuth-hound since the mid 19th century, and shortly after that in the USA a simple sleuth. The word sleuth itself derives from Scandinavian, and its earliest meaning was ‘the track or trail of a person or animal’.
Rhymesbuck tooth, couth, Duluth, forsooth, Maynooth, ruth, sooth, strewth, tooth, truth, youth Definition of sleuth in US English: sleuthnounsluθslo͞oTH informal A detective. 侦探 Example sentencesExamples - Amateur sleuths will be able to record footage of gang ringleaders and other yobs in action, which can then be used by police as evidence in court.
- But in the meantime, if any amateur or professional sleuths are inclined to start digging, they might find some very interesting answers.
- Amateur sleuths will be needed to solve a murder most foul at Marble Hill and Chiswick House this weekend.
- Corporate tax sleuths got hold of this and are now using it in a convoluted way to avoid U.S. taxes altogether on profits they make from foreign operations.
- Fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes is credited with first realising the value of soil in criminal investigations.
- Super sleuth children put their detective skills to the test to solve a murder.
- An amateur psychologist as well as a sleuth, O'Neill will not be so easily taken in.
- But instead of tracking spies, these sleuths are out to expose surly salespeople to improve the country's standards of customer service.
- It presents cases that have baffled police - and which are unlikely to ever be resolved - for amateur sleuths to examine.
- While the amateur sleuths try to piece together the femme fatale's recent past, Betty is gradually drawn into Rita's shadowy world.
- It is one of the world's most baffling puzzles, the bane of professional cryptologists and amateur sleuths who have spent 15 years trying to solve it.
- But amateur Internet sleuths who read the blog searched electronic databases looking for likely suspects, then posted names and photographs on the Internet.
- Equally convenient is the fact that Johnston's neighbour Winston is an amateur sleuth.
- Both sides accused each other of corporate espionage, with the city pages of the press full of stories about what corporate sleuths and gumshoes get up to on their clients' behalf.
- Anyone of you amazing sleuths care to try this one?
- For years, the discovery was kept a strict secret until the amateur sleuths who uncovered the bodies officially announced their grisly find in 1991.
- The amateur sleuth in me is immediately very excited.
- Civilian sleuths are being sought by Essex Police to work alongside detectives in major investigations.
- Psycho - biographical sleuths speculated endlessly as to the psychological triggers and real-life passion which might have inspired her novel.
- The sleuth is usually an amateur or a consulting detective.
Synonyms private detective, detective, private investigator, investigator
verbsluθslo͞oTH [no object]often as noun sleuthinginformal 1Carry out a search or investigation in the manner of a detective. 探究；侦查；调查 scientists began their genetic sleuthing for honey mushrooms four years ago 四年前，科学家开始了对蜜环菌的基因探究。 Example sentencesExamples - But as the body count rises and thefts occur, the ship's crew begs for Elsa to get involved - and the naturally curious writer can't help but start sleuthing.
- After his interesting encounter at the auto shop, Carl was already not looking forward to more sleuthing.
- Students across the country are sleuthing around schools to see if they're using the right lightbulbs for energy efficiency or recycling to save landfill space.
- ‘You and Mr. Mackenzie seem to be familiar with crime sleuthing,’ Moretti remarked levelly.
- In fact, some of my favorite things are vintage finds that my husband, Don, and I sleuthed out while on trips to out-of-the-way shops or during stolen afternoons at our local haunts.
- In New York there's sleuthing for clues about a woman with long black hair and a frantic discussion of what might have happened to her.
- Where would that leave old-fashioned sleuthing?
- A series of grisly killings in the slums of the old town district had gone unsolved for so long that my expertise was once again required to sleuth out the culprit.
- Les Vasey used to be a top Bradford policeman, sleuthing out villains, but since his retirement ten years ago his target has been the rise in sexually transmitted diseases.
- Carson, her father, had once been a district attorney and this blonde American teenager had a natural ability for sleuthing.
- Isabel, morally obliged to act, starts sleuthing.
- Carpenter has tapped one of his officers who previously expressed an interest in computer sleuthing to specialize in cyber crimes.
- They've singled out rising stars to watch and sleuthed for bargain events.
- With a little more sleuthing, I found out who owned the domain name.
- ‘What drew me to dance history,’ Jowitt remarked, ‘was a very old-fashioned sense of how wonderful it was to sleuth.’
- Solving mysteries and diagnosing patients both require sleuthing, she says.
- As an organizational agnostic with no agenda, a coach can move up and down the ranks, sleuthing out the shadow culture - all the subtextual undercurrents driving the company that are never talked about.
- 1.1dated with object Investigate (someone or something).
〈旧〉调查 Example sentencesExamples - But my mother and I, an unbeatable cross-country sleuthing duo, put a stop to the madness in less than two hours.
- The lawsuit has complicated efforts to sleuth the chain of events at the building.
- In reality it was not merely because a certain police detective was a racist and enjoyed sleuthing a popular boxer.
- A week later he sleuthed out a possible explanation: Without intending to, William Finnegan has clarified one of the mysteries of the U.S. government's visa war against foreign artists.
- It's the tale of two contemporary literary academics sleuthing their way into a long lost love affair, and is utterly laden with coincidence.
OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘track’, in sleuth-hound): from Old Norse slóth; compare with slot. Current senses date from the late 19th century. |