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Details   /dɪtˈeɪlz/  /dˈiteɪlz/   Listen
Details

noun
1.
True confidential information.  Synonym: inside information.


Detail

noun
1.
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole.  Synonyms: item, point.  "A point of information"
2.
A small part that can be considered separately from the whole.  Synonyms: item, particular.
3.
Extended treatment of particulars.
4.
A crew of workers selected for a particular task.
5.
A temporary military unit.  Synonym: contingent.
verb
(past & past part. detailed; pres. part. detailing)
1.
Provide details for.
2.
Assign to a specific task.



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... we should understand their details, and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always ...
— Reflections - Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims • Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
... as the mass of accounts of the latter description is diminished by settlement the difficulty of settling the residue is increased from the consideration that in many instances it can be obtained only by legal process. For more precise details on this subject I refer to a report from the first ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... employed. But we have here another instance of a quality diffused throughout his work, yet scarcely ever asserting itself in a distinct form. The reason is, that he deals with men and women first—with nature afterwards; and that the details of a landscape have little meaning for him, except in reference to the mental or dramatic situation of which they form a part. This is very apparent in such lyrics or romances as: "By the Fire-side," "In a Gondola," and "Childe Roland to the ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr
... uncertainty about the lips—in the height and size of the figure, and the carriage of the head and body, the likeness appeared even more startling than I had ever felt it to be yet. But there the resemblance ended, and the dissimilarity, in details, began. The delicate beauty of Miss Fairlie's complexion, the transparent clearness of her eyes, the smooth purity of her skin, the tender bloom of colour on her lips, were all missing from the worn weary face that was now turned towards ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... concerned with it, may be defined as the literary effect produced by the marshaling of details in their exactitude for the purpose of bringing out character. The fact that they may be ugly and vulgar the reverse, makes not the slightest difference. The modern realist contemplates the inanimate things which surround us with peculiar complaisance, and it ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter


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