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detail
/ˈdi.teɪl/
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What does detail mean?
noun
- A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- A profusion of details.
- The small parts that can escape casual notice.
More meanings (9)
noun
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
- A person's name, address and other personal information.
- A temporary unit or assignment.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- A selected portion of a painting.
verb
- To explain in detail.
- To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles, always pronounced /ˈdiːteɪl/)
- To assign to a particular task.
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IPA pronunciation
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The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an extract from the Journal de Paris, of the same date.
She began now to live through that yesterday morning deliberately again, forcing herself to dwell on every detail and its possible meaning.
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And here she is growing Irisher and Irisher every day, but, true to her christening, protesting loudly against every detail of life.
Even the professional detectives, blasé as they were in every detail of crime, appeared to be keenly interested in the man’s story.
In building, in road-making, in the construction of bridges, in every detail and byway of his employments, he pursued the same ideal.