Word Finder - detail

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Something small enough to escape casual notice.

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Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.

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A profusion of details.

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This etching is full of fine detail.

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The small things that can escape casual notice.

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Something considered trivial enough to ignore.

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

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A person's name, address and other personal information.

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The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.

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(law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.

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An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.

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A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

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A selected portion of a painting

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To explain in detail.

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I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.

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To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/)

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We need to have the minivan detailed.

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To assign to a particular task

He should try and remember every detail he sees.

While they didn't detail their crimes, both spoke of ruining their lives because of sins of the flesh.

None the less, we were elated at the detail he'd gathered.

I'll go into as much detail as I can, Dean answered.

We record every detail he sees eliminating his need to remember license plate and such.

I related in detail what I'd learned on line.

She was tense and waiting while his eyes took in every detail of her face.

Similar principles apply in infinite detail to the treatment of wind instruments, and we must never lose sight of them in speculating as to the reasons why the genius of Beethoven was able to carry instrumentation into worlds of which Haydn and Mozart never dreamt, or why, having gone so far, it left anything unexplored.

Cynthia gave them both a cautious look but after explaining in detail what needed to be done, she agreed to let the surrogate cooking team give it a try.

If the place didn't feel so much like she designed every detail, she'd freak out.

We cannot describe in detail the objects of concordatory conventions.

Jim accepted it as a mere detail, and at his command the attendants gave his coat a good rubbing, combed his mane and tail, and washed his hoofs and fetlocks.

We read about it in vivid detail, from around the year 900, in the writings of the Persian physician Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi.

She cannot know in detail how she was taught, and her memory of her childhood is in some cases an idealized memory of what she has learned later from her teacher and others.

A few Naturals were found every year, and he didn't bother to remember their names in an organization his size, leaving that level of detail to his most trusted men, the two regional commanders, and dozens of sector commanders worldwide.

She sure gives a lot of detail, the borrowed knife, him looking up, her wearing a disguise.

He really wasn't a man of detail, which was why she was so surprised to see him working as a financial planner.

He didn't leave a single detail out, hoping she would understand how obvious it was that she would not hurt him.

During the week before Christmas, Martha had spent an overnight at Bird Song when Janet was forced to report to court in Grand Junction, on some charges she, thankfully, did not detail to the Deans.

The latter is described in detail under the heading Masu Ria, Battles In.

The downside of setting up identities was that someone would learn more detail about us than we'd previously released.

I promise, you will be consulted on every decision, but we haven't discussed a single detail yet.

She thought of Elise's security detail and then of the Vice President, the President's staff, the renowned scholars and businessmen taking refuge there.

Dean didn't doubt for a minute the booty would be examined in detail as soon as he was asleep.

Dean explained Cynthia Byrne's request for as much detail as possible in his report to help her obtain a death certificate.

In detail, however, they differ widely from the purer Gothic of northern countries.

Modern criticism of the history of Sabbath observance among the Hebrews has done nothing more than follow out these arguments in detail, and show that the result is in agreement with what is known as to the dates of the several component parts of the Pentateuch.

That there are many inconsistencies and signs of carelessness in his work has been proved in detail by Langen.

They wrote the history of Rome from the earliest times (in most cases) down to their own days, the events of which were treated in much greater detail.

The smallest detail was not beneath his notice.

But even if he also took up a position in the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.

But that special criticism is a question of detail.

The reform of Cleisthenes answers in a general way to the reform of Licinius, though the different circumstances of the two cities hinder us from carrying out the parallel into detail.

Roman Catholic apologetic prefers to negotiate in detail.

It is a panegyric; but history has not refused to accept it as a genuine representation of the character of the great king, in spirit, if not in every detail.

We may now examine the exchange " futures " in minuter detail.

The remarkable life-history of one species, Linguatula taenioides, has been worked out in detail and presents a close analogy to that of some Cestodes.

Only a comparison in detail will give a true impression of the extraordinary degree of resemblance.

They have the same love for poetry, music and romance; the same intense pride in their race and history; many of the same superstitions and customs. The Christians retain the Servian costume, modified in detail, as by the occasional use of the turban or fez.

Bacon's share in another great trial which came on shortly afterwards, the Overbury and Somerset case, is not of such a nature as to render it necessary to enter upon it in detail.

I saw him lying on a bed," said she, making a gesture with her hand and a lifted finger at each detail, "and that he had his eyes closed and was covered just with a pink quilt, and that his hands were folded," she concluded, convincing herself that the details she had just seen were exactly what she had seen in the mirror.

Another series of instruments, introduced by Cooke and Wheatstone in 1840, and generally known as " Wheatstone's step-by-step letter-showing " or " ABC instruments," were worked out with great ingenuity of detail by Wheatstone in Great Britain and by Breguet and others in France.

It is not necessary to write the history of the Lombard kingdom in detail.

There is no need to detail the fortunes of the Napoleonic states in Italy.

The gradual elaboration of the sacrificial ceremonial, as the all-sufficient expression of religious devotion, and a constantly growing tendency towards theosophic and mystic speculation on the significance of every detail of the ritual, could not fail to create a demand for explanatory treatises of this kind, which, to enhance their practical utility, would naturally deal with the special texts and rites assigned in the ceremonial to the several classes of officiating priests.

It Simplifi- is possible for Christians to work out natural theology in separate detail; but we cannot wonder if they rarely attempt the task, believing as they do that they have a fuller revelation of religious truth elsewhere.

They teach the inferior but working part of our intellect, the " Understanding," that its picture of sensuous reality envisaged in time and space must be as fully articulated as is possible - as much differentiated into detail, and as perfectly integrated again into unity and system.

The distinguished after writers, whom we have to regard as repeating in essence pre-Kantian theories, generally know Kant, and frequently show traces of him in detail.

The budding of this medusa has been worked out in detail by Chun (Hydrozoa, [1]), to whom the reader must be referred for the interesting laws of budding regulating the sequence and order of formation of the buds.

Other variations in the mode of growth or budding bring about further differences in the building up of the colony, which are not in all cases properly understood and cannot be described in detail here.