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Meaning detail meaning

What does detail mean?
Definitions in simple English

detail Noun

— A detail is a small part of something that is not as important as the whole thing. I've written a book, but I still need to change some details in it. Writing your name at the top of the page is a small detail, but it's important. This is a very clear picture. You can see every detail. — A detail is a job or duty. He's on floor-cleaning detail today.

detail Verb

— When someone details something, they tell all the details about it, or record the details. Would you please detail this project for me?

detail

— noun (= point) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole several of the details are similar a point of information — noun extended treatment of particulars the essay contained too much detail — noun a small part that can be considered separately from the whole it was perfect in all details — noun a crew of workers selected for a particular task a detail was sent to remove the fallen trees — verb assign to a specific task The ambulances were detailed to the fire station — verb provide details for — noun (= contingent) a temporary military unit the peacekeeping force includes one British contingent

Synonyms detail synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as detail?

detail English » English

item particular part detachment circumstance component specify particulars element retail point piece assign specification relate reason particularity minuteness list itemize interpret import feature determine details designate contingent bit zoom in unit trivial thing tell off technicals task force substance subject spell out specific spare part sharpen set sections restrict recount quotation prescribe pin down parts drawing particularize

Topics detail topics

What do people use detail to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Military organization
States Quantity Whole, complete

Part
States

Parts of things
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Gossip

Conjugation detail conjugation

How do you conjugate detail?

detail · verb

Examples detail examples

How do I use detail in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Beth described what she had seen in detail.
Even though Tom explained it in detail, I'm still not sure I really understand it.
Everything was done right, down to the last detail.
Tom knew about every detail of their plan.
Professors should explain everything in detail, not be succinct and always tell students to go home and read their books.
The radio broadcast the news in detail.
Would you explain it in more detail?
The pilot described the scene in detail.
Could you explain it in more detail?
Each item was described in painstaking detail.
Please tell me the story in detail.
Attention should be paid to even the smallest detail of the report.
Describe that accident in detail.
The plan was discussed in detail.
I have no time to explain this in detail.
The boy decided to observe and record bees in detail.
There isn't time to explain in detail.
He described the scene in detail.
He explained the matter in detail.

Movie subtitles

I'd like a set of brass buttons, with an anchor detail, if you got 'em, please.
He didn't go into great detail, but it's clear that his absence will be of some duration.
Cut their teeth on Milosevic's protective detail during the ethnic cleansing of the Yugoslav wars.
Detail, halt!
Kat! - Hmm? - You've got the wiring detail tonight.
Miss Wilson will give you the guest list and any detail you need.
Too much detail.
Whatever Mabuse writes is based upon incontrovertible logic and serves as a perfect guide for the commission of crimes worked out to the minutest detail.
Facts from history, from geography. from newspapers, from scientific textbooks. millions and millions of them down to the smallest detail.
Yes, but I can remember every little detail.
One little detail I forgot to mention.
He wears the same cuff-links, he is incredibly like you, to the last detail, like the scratch on his hand from my bracelet.
Everything so exact, down to the smallest detail, you know?
Oh, there's just one more detail, madam.
We wanted it to be perfect, so I made Saad focus on getting every last detail right.
If you don't mind, I'd like to hear more about him in detail.
The doctor has just described in detail how he believes the victim was struck with a large knife from 2 meters away.
It's not an important detail.
He's chained to his desk. Too much detail.
That unimportant detail can be settled when the ambassador gets here.
One more little detail.
Major Jowett. -Sir? -Take four of the detail in skirmishing order.
Take a detail and got to the Strand Chambers immediately. Very good, sir.
Hadn't I better detail some men to watch this house, sir?
This man doesn't resemble him in any detail.
Mr Halton, you described every detail with such love and care.
A detail struck me.
A mysterious detail and I'm growing more and more anxious.
So. the border question. - Yes. It's just a matter of detail.
Tell you all about it in detail.
Now tell it to me in detail.
We can go into this social detail later.
But if I even for a moment thought of doing what you propose what in the world would keep Wilmer from telling the police every last detail about the falcon and all.
I remember every detail.
Mrs. Anton, there's not a detail of the Alquist case that I don't know. and unless I'm more mistaken than I've ever been in my life. the man called Sergis Bauer has a wife living in Prague now.
Oh, there's nothing wrong, except for one slight detail.

News and current affairs

Critics of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, for example, acknowledged that his ability to articulate a vision was one of his great strengths as a leader, but complained about his lack of attention to detail.
Another similar question at Nice will be whether the time has come to simplify the EU Treaties, which are now a confusing jumble of general principles and difficult detail.
The five economies spelled out their policy plans in considerable detail to the semi-annual meeting of the IMF's membership, which gave them a warm welcome.
On the contrary, these memos make clear that torture was a tactic formulated in minute detail.
His son's expensive lifestyle as a student at Oxford and Harvard has been described in lavish detail in the press.
In graphic detail, Gore demonstrated how a 20-foot rise in the sea level would inundate much of Florida, Shanghai, and Holland.
The combination of high politics and grinding technical detail makes EU policymaking a much less interesting spectacle than national politics, and of course there's the added problem that so many of the players are unknown foreigners.
In its rush to have westerners buy the banks, the IMF forgot one detail: to ensure that South Korea could recapture at least a fraction of those gains through taxation.
I describe the project in detail in my book Expert Political Judgment: How good is it?
This means that the country seeking information must produce a substantiated request, naming the taxable person and the specific bank in question or describing them in sufficient detail.
The agreement constitutes an important political and diplomatic milestone, and it contains more detail and is broader in scope than many anticipated.
Iran is now in the superpower's sights, and the US approach brings to mind the preparatory phase of the Iraq war - down to the last detail.
I describe it in detail in my new book Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States.
True, topics favored by sex-starved male geeks have been elaborated in disturbingly exquisite detail, while less alluring matters often lie fallow.
To see the severe effects of a banking crisis, look no further than the 1930's, a period that Ben Bernanke studied in detail before he became Fed chair.
The works of these banned writers are packed with vivid detail about contemporary Chinese life.
In grim detail, his letter described the bloody mayhem that the slaughter brought to his hospital and the hysteria of ordinary people as they arrived to find children and loved ones dead.
The agenda presents a hodgepodge of measures in varying degrees of detail.
It is striking that no senior executive of whom I am aware has laid out in any detail how his or her institution's expertise could be deployed in pursuit of the collective goal of stability.
The abolition of border controls was anything but a minor detail, and yet it was achieved on the basis of intergovernmental agreements.
Advanced training in economics requires learning about market failures in detail, and about the myriad ways in which governments can help markets work better.
And, while the new official record depicts this well-known episode in some detail, it sheds no new light on how Hirohito understood his own action.
Turkey - an uncertain US ally nowadays, yet still a NATO member - may be too preoccupied with domestic political turmoil to respond in detail.

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