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n. An individual part or item; a particular. See Synonyms at item.

n. Particulars considered individually and in relation to a whole: careful attention to detail.

n. A minor or an inconsequential item or aspect; a minutia: skipped the details to get to the main point.

n. A minute or thorough treatment or account: went into detail about his travels.

n. A discrete part or portion of a work, such as a painting, building, or decorative object, especially when considered in isolation.

n. A representation of such a part or portion: a detail of a Rembrandt portrait illustrating the technique of chiaroscuro.

n. A small elaborated element of a work of art, craft, or design.

n. Such elements considered together: the intricate detail of a rococo altarpiece.

n. The rendering of artistic detail: the fine detail of the painter's brushwork.

n. The selection of one or more troops for a particular duty, usually a fatigue duty.

n. The personnel so selected.

n. The duty assigned: garbage detail.

v. To report or relate minutely or in particulars.

v. To name or state explicitly: detailed the charges against the defendant.

v. To provide with artistic or decorative detail: detailed the quilt with colorful appliqué.

v. To select and dispatch for a particular duty.

v. To clean (a car interior, for example) meticulously.

idiom. in detail With attention to particulars; thoroughly or meticulously: explained her proposal in detail.

n. Something small enough to escape casual notice.

n. A profusion of details.

n. Something considered trivial enough to ignore.

n. A person's name, address and other personal information.

n. A temporary unit or assignment.

v. to explain in detail

v. (US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car)

v. (military) to assign to a particular task

n. A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural.

n. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

n. The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.

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n. 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.

n. A detail drawing.

v. To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify.

v. To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

v. To provide with fine or intricate added decoration.

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.

n. 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.

n. 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).

n. A minute account; a narrative or report of particulars: as, he gave a detail of all the transaction.

n. Milit., the selection of an individual or a body of troops for a particular service; the person or persons so selected; a detachment.

n. Individually; part by part.

n. Synonyms Relation, recital.

n. Squad.

n. The service on which one is detailed.

n. extended treatment of particulars

v. assign to a specific task

n. an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole

n. a small part that can be considered separately from the whole

n. a temporary military unit

v. provide details for

n. a crew of workers selected for a particular task

"The field of evolutionary developmental biology, which studies the genetics of morphology in detail is now a rapidly expanding one, with many of the developmental genetic cascades, particularly in the fruitfly (Drosophila), now catalogued in considerable detail."

detailed    detailing    details   

discussion    treatment    discourse    assign    set apart    specify    military group    force    military unit    military force   

details of a plan    in detail    detail paper    to detail on the plane    office of detail   

larger details   

detailing   

recital    narration    narrative    explanation    relation    account    particular    item    detach    appoint   

Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   

description    form    history    account    method    fact    abstracto    apposition    dancing    stead