Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An individual part or item; a particular.
- noun Particulars considered individually and in relation to a whole.
- noun A minor or an inconsequential item or aspect; a minutia.
- noun A minute or thorough treatment or account.
- noun A discrete part or portion of a work, such as a painting, building, or decorative object, especially when considered in isolation.
- noun A representation of such a part or portion.
- noun A small elaborated element of a work of art, craft, or design.
- noun Such elements considered together.
- noun The rendering of artistic detail.
- noun A group of military personnel assigned to a particular duty, usually a fatigue duty.
- noun The duty assigned.
- transitive verb To report or relate explicitly or in particulars.
- transitive verb To provide with artistic or decorative detail.
- transitive verb To assign to a particular duty.
- transitive verb To clean (a car interior, for example) meticulously.
- transitive verb To market to (a physician) the drugs sold by one's company,
- idiom (in detail) With attention to particulars; thoroughly or meticulously.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divide or set off; specifically, to set apart for a particular service; appoint to a separate duty: chiefly in military use: as, to
detail a corporal's guard for fatigue duty or as an escort; to detail an officer. - To relate, report, or narrate in particulars; recite the particulars of; particularize; tell fully and distinctly: as, to
detail all the facts in due order. - To give details or particulars about something.
- noun The service on which one is detailed.
- noun An individual part; an item; a particular: as, the account is accurate in all its details; the point objected to is an unimportant detail; collectively (without a plural), particulars; particulars considered separately and in relation to the whole: as, a matter of detail.
- noun In the fine arts, etc., a relatively small, subordinate, and particular part, as distinguished from a general conception or from larger parts or effects; also, such parts collectively (in the singular).
- noun A minute account; a narrative or report of particulars: as, he gave a detail of all the transaction.
- noun Milit., the selection of an individual or a body of troops for a particular service; the person or persons so selected; a detachment.
- noun Individually; part by part.
- noun Synonyms Relation, recital.
- noun Squad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify.
- transitive verb (Mil.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
- transitive verb To provide with fine or intricate added decoration.
- noun A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- noun A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- noun (Mil.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
- noun A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called
larger details ) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower. - noun A detail drawing.
- noun a drawing of the full size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc.
- noun in subdivisions; part by part; item by item; circumstantially; with particularity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable Something small enough to escape casual notice.
- noun uncountable A profusion of details.
- noun Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
- noun countable A person's name, address and other personal information.
- noun military A temporary unit or assignment.
- verb transitive to explain in detail
- verb transitive (US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car)
- verb transitive (
military ) to assign to a particular task
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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As I think Marion Zimmer Bradley once said (and she should have known, having written pornography under pseudonyms), “Describing sex in detail is like describing plumbing.”
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Twitter has a lot of virtues, but discussing policy issues in detail is not one of them.
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The field of evolutionary developmental biology, which studies the genetics of morphology in detail is now a rapidly expanding one, with many of the developmental genetic cascades, particularly in the fruitfly (Drosophila), now catalogued in considerable detail.
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Exactly how to best do that in detail is what they want more information about, but just knowing that much was quite helpful in terms of focusing their efforts.
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As I think Marion Zimmer Bradley once said (and she should have known, having written pornography under pseudonyms), “Describing sex in detail is like describing plumbing.”
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But I think the overwhelming demand for evidence in detail is really creating a burden for forces.
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On the other hand, we had the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Bild, Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as the Austrian Der Standard and the Neue Zürisches Zeitung covering the story in detail from a very different angle.
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What I did take issue with, and I do not see that you specifically answered it in detail, is that God does NOT work temporally as well.
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But since most of the MPs I've met lead lives that differ only in detail from the pattern I've just described, I suspect they may know something that we don't.
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Another sterol which Windaus has studied in detail, is ergosterol, which occurs partly in ergot and partly in yeast.
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