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Detail   /dɪtˈeɪl/  /dˈiteɪl/   Listen
noun
Detail  n.  
1.
A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. "The details of the campaign in Italy."
2.
A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
3.
(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.
4.
(Arch. & Mach.)
(a)
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.
(b)
A detail drawing.
Detail drawing, a drawing of the full size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc.
In detail, in subdivisions; part by part; item by item; circumstantially; with particularity.
Synonyms: Account; relation; narrative; recital; explanation; narration.


verb
Detail  v. t.  (past & past part. detailed; pres. part. detailing)  
1.
To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
2.
(Mil.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
3.
To provide with fine or intricate added decoration.
Synonyms: Detail, Detach. Detail respects the act of individualizing the person or body that is separated; detach, the removing for the given end or object.





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"Detail" Quotes from Famous Books



... health. Then he approached the subject of marriage with the daughter of the American Claimant with a good deal of caution and much painstaking art. He said praiseful and appreciative things about the girl, but didn't dwell upon that detail or make it prominent. The thing which he made prominent was the opportunity now so happily afforded, to reconcile York and Lancaster, graft the warring roses upon one stem, and end forever a crying injustice which had already lasted far too long. One could infer that he had ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... windings are occasioned by thus adhering to aretes, but the total result is a gradual ascent with free prospect over plain and mountain. The Apennines, built up upon a smaller scale than the Alps, perplexed in detail and entangled with cross sections and convergent systems, lend themselves to this plan of carrying highroads along their ridges instead of following ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... was a study, so puckered up and intent it had grown, as he stood there with the linen folded over so that he could hold it beneath the lamp-shade, and gaze at some detail, which he compared with the drawing on ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn
... it had so seized upon his imagination that he had asked often for it. It was, indeed, a part of the long-past history of Samavia, and he had loved it for that reason. Lazarus had often told it to him, sometimes adding much detail, but he had always liked best his father's version, which seemed a thrilling and living thing. On their journey from Russia, during an hour when they had been forced to wait in a cold wayside station ...
— The Lost Prince • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... appeared exceedingly struck with the dream, inquired the particulars more in detail, and asked if they were sure there was nobody concealed in the place Faustina indicated. Malfi answered that he did not alight, but he looked over the wall and saw nobody. During the course of this conversation they had turned their ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419, New Series, January 10, 1852 • Various


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