detail

detail
I
n.
small part
minute 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

II

v. (usu. mil.) (D; tr.) ('to assign') to detail for (to detail a unit for fatigue duty)

* * *
['diːteɪl]
(a) graphic
a mere
cite details
furnish (the) details
gruesome
harrowing
lurid
microscopic
petty detail
sordid
to fill in
unsavory
work detail
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?)
['detachment'] (usu. mil.) to form a detail
['small part'] ['minute treatment'] to bring up
a fatigue
to go into detail
in 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.

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