[
US
/ˈditeɪɫ, dɪˈteɪɫ/
]
NOUN
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extended treatment of particulars
the essay contained too much detail -
a temporary military unit
the peacekeeping force includes one British contingent -
a crew of workers selected for a particular task
a detail was sent to remove the fallen trees -
an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
several of the details are similar
a point of information -
a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
it was perfect in all details
VERB
- provide details for
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assign to a specific task
The ambulances were detailed to the fire station
How To Use detail In A Sentence
- Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
- One can only guess at the research and detective work that has gone into the bald details recorded for each piece.
- I won't go into detail over the phone, but I've been having a few health problems recently.
- The details aren't specific, and feel a little kludged.
- But Ms. Economy pointed to the elaborateness of concept and coordination of details — "the flowers are matching," she observed — leading her to suspect they may have had professional help bringing the Halloween spirit alive. Suburban Tricks, Urban Treats
- With the usual prerogative of the wealthy classes, he tended to choose doctors with a reputation for having studied some topics in greater detail than usual.
- He claimed that we'd all be a lot safer if researchers would keep details about vulnerabilities to themselves, and stop arming hackers with offensive tools.
- In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating. Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels
- The bundled documentation contains the detailed instructions on how to do these tasks.
- The areas of troilism and coprophilia are covered in some detail to establish to what degree they belong to the deviation of voyeurism.