Word Finder - details

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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

Len is going to take care of the details for me.

It won't be long now; just a few more details to check.

We'll get down to the details.

Howie doesn't remember any details of his prior life; family; studying for the priest hood, college... a blank slate and he can't find the chalk.

Silly David Dean for thinking more time might be needed to put all these pesky details to rest.

The paper didn't give a whole lot of details but the boys got in trouble and Edith saved the youngest one, Donnie.

So in the present and future, when a technology comes along that represents such a change—that saves details of our activities with which to advise us later, or has us speaking to machines as if they were creatures—it will simply be more of the same.

Some of the details she had forgotten, as she grew more and more to generalize.

I'll take care of those details.

Wouldn't you want at least basic details?

He was simply helping out his sibling and never asked for details.

He moved to sit on the trunk at the end of the bed, close enough to see the details of her features without being too tempted to take her in his arms.

On waking in the morning she told the Rostovs and all her acquaintances the details of Count Bezukhov's death.

No wonder he thought she didn't want to be burdened with the details.

I hadn't known how Annie was abducted and chastised myself for not seeking the details.

Dean hadn't even managed a last name for bitch-Jennifer, much less the details of Dawkins v. Dawkins.

Once the details to that "caper," as Fred O'Connor called it, were settled, life and business at Bird Song had proceeded peacefully.

If her companion does not give her enough details, Miss Keller asks questions until she has completed the view to her satisfaction.

Lisa hesitated, not wanting to alarm her friend with the details.

My past is such an enigma; I don't know any of the details.

In the meantime Betsy interrogated Howie relentlessly about any remembered details.

I guess not but please take down all these details.

I'd call a tip, relate details to the authorities.

You may stay back with your daughter while I arrange the details.

Both of us tried to remember details of Quinn's actions when he set up a session.

While there was a comment that father Joe Calvia hadn't taken the news well, no details were given, and no calls from a hospital emergency room followed.

Details were sketchy to nonexistent.

She has an uncanny way of sticking to pertinent details.

Give me all the details.

When the world wasn't expressing sympathy for the old man, they were looking for details on Billie Wassermann, his butt-brand, and all the gory details of the fat twin's execution.

Betsy was in it but I'll spare the details.

This was unusual, as Bird Song's matron had pestered him about the details of the emerging flora since he had arrived at the inn the prior week.

Martha didn't ask for details, nor did the Deans offer any beyond dire cautionary warnings of childhood dangers.

Not that I can tell, but we didn't get into details about her dealings with Darkyn.

Dean had a memory of Fred draping a flannel shirt over Franny's bare shoulders, though no recollection of the order of arrival or any real details of what followed.

Her eyes filled with wonder, and her artist's mind drank in the details of the scene.

Dean usually devoted the solitary time behind the wheel to sorting out details of a case, putting little facts in their slots like letters in a country post office.

Between bites he answered Fred's questions, filling in the details of the trip south.

No. It was just one of those unanswered details I picked up on and figured I'd ask.

Dean filled in to his lieutenant the details of the Norfolk trip, leaving out what he felt wasn't police business—a surprisingly large portion.

McCarthy spelled out the details.

I'm not looking for details, I'm just curious.

It was...interesting, interesting to see how you guys follow up all the details.

Dean let him talk it out, half listening, half trying to make sense of all the details.

Let's go in and iron out the details.

Yes. Do you want to know all the details?

If Alex wanted her to know the financial details, he would have told her, and it wasn't any of Katie's business.

He'd given no more details, a sign something was up.

In 1882 Jenkin invented an automatic method of electric transport for goods - "telpherage" - but the completion of its details was prevented by his death on the 12th of June 1885.

Details are kept strictly secret.