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detail

Pronunciation: /ˈdiː.teɪl/

The English word “detail” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A part small enough to escape casual notice.
  2. A profusion of details.
  3. The small parts that can escape casual notice.
  4. A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
  5. A person's name, address and other personal information.
  6. A temporary unit or assignment.
  7. An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
  8. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
  9. A selected portion of a painting.

verb

  1. To explain in detail.
  2. To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles, always pronounced /ˈdiːteɪl/)
  3. To assign to a particular task.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”). Compare typologically Bulgarian подробност (podrobnost), Czech podrobnost, Russian подро́бность (podróbnostʹ) (akin to дроби́ть (drobítʹ)).

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