detail
Meaning of detail
noun
- Something small enough to escape casual notice.
Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.
- A profusion of details.
This etching is full of fine detail.
- The small things that can escape casual notice.
- Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
I don't concern myself with the details of accounting.
- A person's name, address and other personal information.
The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.
- (law enforcement) 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
- To explain in detail.
I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
- To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/)
We need to have the minivan detailed.
- To assign to a particular task
Information about detail
- The plural form of detail is: details.
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Hyphenation of detail
de-tail
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- detail is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
detail synonyms
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Meaning :
detachment, portion, section, minutia, technicality, trifle, triviality, detach, specify
Translation of detail
- Spanish: detalle, detallar
- French: détail
- Italian: dettaglio
- Portuguese: detalhe, detalhar
- German: detaillieren
Anagrams of detail
dietal, dilate, edital, tailed, Tilade
Words that rhyme with detail
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