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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



... was not fought out on the plan in accordance with which marching orders were issued to my troops, for I then hoped to take Early in detail, and with Crook's force cut off his retreat. I adhered to this purpose during the early part of the contest, but was obliged to abandon the idea because of unavoidable delays by which I was prevented from getting the ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan
... Cab-horse found himself in possession of a large room with a green marble floor and carved marble wainscoting, which was so stately in its appearance that it would have awed anyone else. Jim accepted it as a mere detail, and at his command the attendants gave his coat a good rubbing, combed his mane and tail, and washed his hoofs and fetlocks. Then they told him dinner would be served directly and he replied that they could not serve it too ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.
... were re-used others of a fine grained stone were inserted among them to strengthen the arches, or as a substitute for some of the rougher sandstones that could not be used again. By this means, then, the original form and detail of the twelfth-century arches was preserved, so that the drawings representing the measured studies of the building, which were Sir Gilbert Scott's principal authority upon which to base his restoration of this portion of the tower, were made from work which had already been ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) - A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The - Diocese And See • Hubert C. Corlette
... Madame de Montalais another time, and had found that she fitted to the sweetest detail of perfection ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... preference to landscapes; I find, at least, that field quite wide enough. It seems scarcely possible to unite both, they are so different in character and detail, and require such a different course ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper


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