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Details   /dɪtˈeɪlz/  /dˈiteɪlz/   Listen
Details

noun
1.
True confidential information.  Synonym: inside information.


Detail

noun
1.
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole.  Synonyms: item, point.  "A point of information"
2.
A small part that can be considered separately from the whole.  Synonyms: item, particular.
3.
Extended treatment of particulars.
4.
A crew of workers selected for a particular task.
5.
A temporary military unit.  Synonym: contingent.
verb
(past & past part. detailed; pres. part. detailing)
1.
Provide details for.
2.
Assign to a specific task.



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"Details" Quotes from Famous Books



... yesterday, and this morning was sent for to the British Embassy, where Sir George entered into an infinity of details which I cannot state at present. Sir George has commanded me, however, to write to the ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow
... had heard nothing of his illness. I need not say that I rushed for my coat and my hat. As we drove back I asked for the details. ...
— The Adventure of the Dying Detective • Arthur Conan Doyle
... drew from them wrong inferences. He afterwards said that there was nothing romantic in his paper, and that every incident mentioned was an actual occurrence. He had letters from Emerson and Hawthorne before he wrote his papers on those two authors, to enable him to verify certain details. ...
— Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke
... Fates; you've only seen a peep through the curtain,—a specimen of what is going on, the world over, in some shape or other. If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything. 'T is like looking too close into the details of Dinah's kitchen;" and St. Clare lay back on the sofa, and busied himself ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... science and art on all sides as their own end and aim. Scientia est potentia, said Lord Bacon. Practical utility results indirectly through the progress which Scientific Cognition makes in this free attitude, because it collects itself out of the dissipation through manifold details into a universal idea and attains a profounder insight thereby. This organism for the purpose of instruction is properly called a University. By it the educational organization ...
— Pedagogics as a System • Karl Rosenkranz


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