detail

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
(I don't claim all the detail is here … just my blueprint):

View all »
Definitions (43)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (18)

  1. noun An individual part or item; a particular. See Synonyms at item.
  2. noun Particulars considered individually and in relation to a whole: careful attention to detail.
  3. noun A minor or an inconsequential item or aspect; a minutia: skipped the details to get to the main point.
15 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (16)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (7)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • "The only other detail will be your posing as Mary English's husband What!" —  168 - The Death Lady
  • Another detail was the excommunication of Zapolya, the rival of the Habsburgs in Hungary—a step which Henry VIII. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri VIII - A.F. Pollard
  • He said the detail is his excitement and figuring out how to make it happen is the challenge he enjoys.
  • The wings are fantastic and the detail is amazing! —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • This detail is also a mix of chain stitch and straight stitch but this time finished off with silk ribbon roses and seed beads. —  In a Minute Ago
More examples »
 

Tags

detail hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 115 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

description ·  form ·  history ·  account ·  method ·  fact

Used in the same contextWord Family

detail:   details ·  detailing ·  detailed
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French détail, from Old French detail, a piece cut off, from detaillir, to cut up : de-, de- + tailler, taillier, to cut; see tailor.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Old French detaillier, detailler, detailher, destaillier, French détailler (= Spanish detallar = Portuguese detalhar = Italian distagliare, stagliare, cut up, divide, cf. dettagliare, after F., detail, cut up, retail, narrate in particulars), from de-, L, dis-, apart, + tailler, cut: see tail, tailor, tally, and cf. retail.
  2. = D. G. Danish detail = Swedish detalj, from Old French detail, French détail (= Spanish detalle = Portuguese detalhe = Italian dettaglio), detail, retail; from the verb.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/dəˈteɪl/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a day.

Recently looked up

intrigue · gravitation · appearance · Easy · rarefied

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

britney · bunda · settii · aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile · an sionnach i gcraiceann na caorach