Any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant.

Synonym of cleansing.

A hand-held device that uses electromagnetic induction to detect buried metal.

To remove foreign and harmful substances from something.

(law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator. / A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.

Employed in detecting.

(intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove. / (transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.

(transitive) To prevent something from happening. / (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage. / (transitive) To distract someone from something.

An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler. / A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current.

(transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. / (transitive) To put under custody. / (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.