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Detail Definition

detail

See also Detail, and détail

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English

Etymology

French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

Noun

detail (countable and uncountable; plural details)

  1. (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
    Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.
    We missed several important details in the contract.
  2. (uncountable) A profusion of details.
    This etching is full of fine detail
  3. Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
    I don't concern myself with the details of accounting
  4. (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
    The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.
  5. (military) A temporary unit or assignment.

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Verb

detail (third-person singular simple present details, present participle detailing, simple past and past participle detailed)

  1. (transitive) to explain in detail
    I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
  2. (transitive) (US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car)
    We need to have the minivan detailed.
  3. (transitive)(military) to assign to a particular task

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Translations

to explain in detail
US (?): to clean carefully (particularly a car)
military: to assign to a particular task
  • Swedish: avdela (sv), detachera (sv), kommendera (sv), ta ut (sv)
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  • Portuguese: detalhar

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

detail m.

  1. detail

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

detail n. (plural details)

  1. detail

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