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[n. dih-teyl, dee-teyl; v. dih-teyl]

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noun

an individual or minute part; an item or particular.

particulars collectively; minutiae.

attention to or treatment of a subject in individual or minute parts: to postpone detail and concentrate on a subject as a whole.

intricate, finely wrought decoration.

Engineering. detail drawing.

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any small section of a larger structure or whole, considered as a unit.

Military.

an appointment or assignment, as of a small group or an officer, for a special task.

the party or person so selected: the kitchen detail.

a particular assignment of duty.

the property of an image or of a method of image production to make small, closely spaced image elements individually distinguishable.

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verb (used with object)

to relate or report with complete particulars; tell fully and distinctly.

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to mention one by one; specify; list: He detailed the events leading up to the robbery.

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Military. to appoint or assign for some particular duty: We were detailed to patrol the border.

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to provide with intricate, finely wrought decoration: lingerie detailed with lace and embroidery.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Idiom

13.

in detail, item by item; with particulars: The résumé stated his qualifications in detail.

Origin:
1595–1605; < French détail, Old French, noun derivative of detailler to cut in pieces, equivalent to de- dis-¹ + tailler to cut < Vulgar Latin *taliāre; see tailor

Related forms

pre·de·tail, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
10. itemize, enumerate, catalog.

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Kelly said yesterday that new details surrounding the deaths last week of a bank robber and the woman he grabbed as a.

Additional details about the department are available at:.

The exact details of the manner of death, for instance, should not be reported.

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Kelly said yesterday that new details surrounding the deaths last week of a bank robber and the woman he grabbed as a.

Additional details about the department are available at:.

The exact details of the manner of death, for instance, should not be reported.

Each page includes a stunning, full-color image as well as cool details about the.

People in a bad mood have better judgment and pay more attention to details.

The home also features unique architectural details including an underground cave and operating observatory.

Sophisticated details fill this garden to the brim.

He sensibly decided to maximize his time at his workbench and leave the mundane operational details to his corporate partners.

When it comes to the financial packages that graduate students receive to pursue their degrees, the devil is in the details.

Please follow the relevant link for more details about the internships and how to apply.

T5 to teach students how to identify details that support the story's main ideas.

They've got the details and they share them with others, who continually verify and reverify.

He worked and reworked his designs, adding or subtracting details and putting the plate through several printings.

Plant as single tree where foliage details can be appreciated.

Radiant has declined to comment on the details of the suit.

DeGioia, features frank admissions about the mundane details of running a.

Please follow the link for more details about the internships and how to apply.

And now, thanks to breakthrough science, she will yield the details of her life and be preserved for the ages.

As obesity becomes a global health threat, scientists are discovering new details about how this complex.

There are a few notable details of the feathery dinosaur.

Details of salary and benefits will be emailed upon request.

The details are not yet public, but this sounds important.

Traditional leather welted seams and side-entry pockets are authentic details from the original.

Another new trick magnifies fine details normally invisible to lenses.

When such details are omitted, we're left with a mythologized view of our true history.

He offered the details during an afternoon phone call with reporters.

There are details in that section that support the main idea.

Knowledge of the cellular and molecular details of these adaptations could lead to new.

Details and nature resource, scenes are all different.

But terminating a coach for no reason often triggers payments, and those details are usually worked out in a contract.

T3 will help readers identify details that support the author's main ideas.

Two papers provide new details on the world of ice.

Hine scribbled details in a notebook hidden in his pocket.

He declined to disclose the purchase price, or other details about the transaction.

Quantum details of plants' food-making ability could improve photovoltaic technology.

And now they've determined the details behind that detection.

Neither she nor other senior administrators would discuss details of the.

The airline has my details on record if the bags get lost.

Hoffman details many bureaucratic boondoggles yet eulogizes volunteers.

Don't tell them what the other school is, or what the details of the offer are.

Pattern types are often genetically inherited, but the individual details that make a fingerprint unique are not.

Remembrances are fractal in nature: the deeper a person looks into one memory, the more details one can unearth.

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Word Origin & History

detail

1603, from Fr. détail, from O.Fr. detail "small piece or quantity," from detaillier "cut in pieces," from de- "entirely" + taillier "to cut in pieces." Modern sense is from Fr. en détail "piece by piece, item by item" (as opposed to en gros), a commercial term used where we would today

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use retail. Military sense is 1708, from notion of "distribution in detail of the daily orders first given in general," including assignment of specific duties. The verb is from 1637.

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