A detail is a small fact or spot in a larger entity. That ambiguous smile is just one detail of da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural;
Noun
an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information"
Noun
extended treatment of particulars; "the essay contained too much detail"
Noun
a crew of workers selected for a particular task; "a detail was sent to remove the fallen trees"
Noun
a temporary military unit; "the peace-keeping force includes one British contingent"
Noun
a small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details"
Verb
assign to a specific task; "The ambulances were detailed to the fire station"
Verb
provide details for
n.
A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an
item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or
transaction.
n.
A narrative which relates minute points; an account which
dwells on particulars.
n.
The selection for a particular service of a person or a
body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
n.
To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report
minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all
the facts in due order.
n.
To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an
officer, a troop, or a squadron.
Detail
The details of the campaign in Italy.2.
Detail
A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural;
To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify;
Usage Examples
When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.
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Other Usage ExamplesAccuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
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