Meaning of detail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A part small enough to escape casual notice.
   countable
2. A part small enough to escape casual notice
3. With attention to particulars; thoroughly or meticulously: explained her proposal in detail.
4. A profusion of details
5. A profusion of details.
   uncountable
6. in detail, item by item; with particulars.
7. The small parts that can escape casual notice
8. The small parts that can escape casual notice.
   uncountable
9. To make specific:particularize, specify, stipulate.
10. A part considered trivial enough to ignore
11. A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
    countable, uncountable
12. A person's name, address and other personal information.
    countable
13. giving many details with nothing left out. His instructions were very detailed. breedvoerig مُفَصَّل подробен detalhado detailní, podrobný genau detaljeret λεπτομερήςdetallado, minucioso, pormenorizado üksikasjalik پر جزئیات؛ مفصل yksityiskohtainen détailléמפורט ब्योरेवार iscrpan, detaljan részletes terinci nákvæmur, tæmandi dettagliato 詳細な 상세한 smulkus, detalus sīks; detalizēts butiran maklumat gedetailleerddetaljert, utførligszczegółowy جز، تفصيل دیره pormenorizado detaliat, amănunţit подроб...
14. A person's name, address and other personal information
15. A temporary unit or assignment.
    countable, uncountable
16. item by item, giving attention to the details. I'll tell you the story in detail. in besonderhede بالتَّفْصيل подробно em detalhes podrobně im einzelnen i detaljer; i enkeltheder διεξοδικά, με το νι και με το σίγμα en detalle üksikasjalikult مو به مو؛ به تفصیل yksityiskohtaisesti en détail לְפִרטֵי פְּרָטִים विस्तार u detalje, detaljno részletesen secara terinci í smáatriðum in dettaglio 詳細に 상세하게 smulkiai, detaliai sīki butiran tot in de details i detalj, inngående ze szczegółami په تفصيل سره...
17. An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
    countable, uncountable
18. An individual part or item; a particular: discussed the details of the proposal.
19. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
    countable, uncountable
20. Particulars considered individually and in relation to a whole: careful attention to detail.
21. A selected portion of a painting.
    countable, uncountable
22. A minor or an inconsequential item or aspect; a minutia: skipped the details to get to the main point.
23. A minute or thorough treatment or account: went into detail about his travels.
24. A discrete part or portion of a work, such as a painting, building, or decorative object, especially when considered in isolation.

Equivalents

Examples

“Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.”

“We missed several important details in the contract.”

“attention to detail”

“This etching is full of fine detail.”

“Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.”

“Attention to detail was said to be one of the secrets of Gerrard's success as a player.”

“I don't concern myself with the details of accounting.”

“Safety at work is not a mere detail.”

“The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.”

“Frequently members of the small police detail dispatched to the scene joined in.”

“WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.”

“"I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply."”

“On the cover of Julia Kristeva's Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia is a detail from a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, “Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Elizabeth Binzenstock, and Her Two Children, Philip and Catherine.””

“Shrubbery and the hand of Christ (detail of plate 12)”

“Eight years later, the outstanding exponent of Memory Painting was herself publicly commemorated by a six-cent postage stamp showing a detail from one of her most patriotic works, July Fourth (1951).”

CEFR level