Detach :: Detach (v. t.) To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party..
Detach :: Detach (v. t.) To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment..
Detach :: Detach (v. i.) To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.
Detachment :: Detachment (n.) The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached..
Detachment :: Detachment (n.) That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service..
Detachment :: Detachment (n.) Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
Detail :: Detail (n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction..
Detail :: Detail (n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
Detail :: Detail (n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected..
Detail :: Detail (n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order..
Detail :: Detail (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron..
Detainer :: Detainer (n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law..
Detainer :: Detainer (n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.