Timeline for What is the inverse of "detect", meaning "to lose sight of"?
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| Oct 26, 2014 at 5:58 | comment | added | user66974 | Disregard was my first suggestion when OP appeared to be looking for a synonym of 'losing sight of'. OP later specified in a comment he actually was looking for a synonym of 'losing signal' which is, of course, quite different!! | |
| Oct 26, 2014 at 0:04 | comment | added | PLL | Disregard doesn’t seem right to me at all. If you say “I disregarded the signal”, it carries a strong connotation that you could have paid attention to it, but did not choose to. This is almost the opposite of what is asked for — trying to keep the signal, but being unable. Miss seems also not quite right, though not so far off: “I missed the signal” suggests in most contexts that you never detected it in the first place. In the right context it can work (“The beeping had been going all night. Suddenly, he missed it.”) but such contexts are fairly narrow. | |
| Oct 25, 2014 at 22:15 | history | edited | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2014 at 21:06 | history | answered | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |