radared

Caught by waves

Radared is the past tense of radar used as a verb, meaning detected or tracked using radar.

Police radar guns measure vehicle speed, so a driver who has been radared has had their speed checked: I got radared doing 80 in a 65 zone.

The word is informal and appears mainly in conversation about traffic enforcement.

aviation

airspace

Regulated overhead flight zone

flightpathAircraft's designated travel corridor
blipMomentary signal flash
trackedFollowed the course of

detected · approach · intercept · altitude · aircraft · pilot · cockpit · transponder · identification · contact

surveillance

monitoring

Ongoing observation of something

trackingMonitoring location over time
detectedNoticed or found
observedPerceived through attention

spotted · located · pinpointed · identified · watchlisted · flagged · screened · scanned · surveilled · reconnaissance

technology

electromagnetic

Involving electric and magnetic fields

dopplerFrequency change from motion
transceiverDual-function communication device
antennaBroadcast signal receiver

microwave · frequency · signal · pulse · receiver · transmitter · sweep · echo · return · blip

military

targeting

Selecting as objective

lock-onAutomated target tracking
AWACSAerial radar surveillance acronym
interceptSeize en route

engagement · scramble · tracking · bogey · hostile · countermeasures · jamming · stealth · sortie · missile

Opposites

detection method

radaredseen

Perceived visually

eyeballed · sighted · watched · heard · photographed

detection status

radaredundetected

Not discovered yet

missed · untracked · unseen · overlooked · evaded

Phrases

flies under the radarEvades scrutiny or notice
under the radarUndetected by scrutiny
off the radarBeyond monitoring or awareness
on the radarCurrently being watched
slips under the radarEvades notice or observation
fly under the radarEvade attention deliberately

Family

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G