detail
/ˈdi.teɪl/ noun A2- A part small enough to escape casual notice. · Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.· We missed several important details in the contract.
- A profusion of details. · This etching is full of fine detail.
- The small parts that can escape casual notice.
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore. · I don't concern myself with the details of accounting.· Safety at work is not a mere detail.
- A person's name, address and other personal information. · The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.
- A temporary unit or assignment.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
Plural details
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There is no use writing of the details of that dreadful event.
William was decoyed up and shot, and had they only got the whole of the note and paid a little more attention to detail in the accessories, it is very possible that suspicion might never have been aroused.”
This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly reciting the details thereof without the least apparent compunction or repentance.
When details were exhausted Mrs.
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