- detail
- In.small partminute treatment
1) to bring up, cite details
2) to go into detail; to fill in, furnish (the) details
3) essential, important; (a) graphic, gruesome, harrowing, lurid, revolting, sordid, unsavory; meticulous, microscopic, minute; petty detail; a mere, minor; technical detail (they went into lurid detail; they brought up petty details; the newspapers wrote of the gruesome details; he described the event in graphic detail; only the police knew the sordid details of the crime; can you fill in the technical details?)
4) in detail (to treat a topic in minute detail)
detachment(usu. mil.)
5) to form a detail
6) a fatigue, work detail
IIv. (usu. mil.) (D; tr.) ('to assign') to detail for (to detail a unit for fatigue duty)
* * *['diːteɪl](a) graphica merecite detailsfurnish (the) detailsgruesomeharrowingluridmicroscopicpetty detailsordidto fill inunsavorywork detailtechnical detail (they went into lurid detail; they brought up petty details; the newspapers wrote of the gruesome details; he described, the event in graphic detail; only the police knew the sordid details of the crime; can you fill in the technical details?)['detachment'] (usu. mil.) to form a detail['small part'] ['minute treatment'] to bring upa fatigueto go into detailin detail (to treat a topic in minute detail)(usu. mil.) (D; tr.) ('to assign') to detail for (to detail a unit for fatigue duty)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.