Detail

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  • 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. undefined
  • 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. undefined
  • 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. undefined
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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. 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. 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. undefined
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something small enough to escape casual notice.
  • noun. A profusion of details.
  • noun. Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
  • noun. A person's name, address and other personal information.
  • noun. A temporary unit or assignment.
  • verb. to explain in detail
  • verb. (US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car)
  • verb. (military) to assign to a particular task
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    Bayle  Braille  Dail  Dale  Gael  
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    KP  account  accredit  accuracy  add up  
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