Definition of detail

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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..

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Particularize :: Particularize (v. t.) To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail..
Cabotage :: Cabotage (n.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
Minutia :: Minutia (n.) A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Unfold :: Unfold (v. t.) To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science..
Topography :: Topography (n.) The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region..
Prolixity :: Prolixity (n.) The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings..
State :: State (v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc..
Detail :: Detail (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron..
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.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected..
By-law :: By-law (n.) A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside..
Point :: Point (n.) That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc..
Detailing :: Detailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detai.
Minute :: Minute (a.) Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation..
Recital :: Recital (n.) A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration..
Martinet :: Martinet (n.) In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods..
Pragmatical :: Pragmatical (a.) Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; -- said of literature..
Elaborative :: Elaborative (a.) Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
Epure :: Epure (n.) A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing..
Ethnography :: Ethnography (n.) That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology..
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