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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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"Details" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the laws of the Gothic architecture. One can imagine that Archbishop Englebert sleeps the more softly in his silver shrine because of the completed work of to-day. So we speak and think of a great stone-temple, the working out of an idea whose details were at first but scantily given, carried out in ages during which the master-minds that planned it could no more ...
— Memoranda Sacra • J. Rendel Harris
... about to enter into details, because there is in fact little to question or debate about but details. We have already hinted that there is absolutely no new fact of any consequence, and, we think we can safely add, hardly a new view of any historical fact, in the whole book. Whatever ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... cases even the dentition has been found accurately portrayed, as in a sixth-century representation on an Ionian vase of a lioness—an animal then very rare on the Eastern Mediterranean littoral, but still known in Babylonia, Syria, and Asia Minor. The details of the work show that the artist must have examined the animal in captivity ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... not, of course, time to insist on the nature or details of government of this kind; only I wish to plead for your several and future consideration of this one truth, that the notion of Discipline and Interference lies at the very root of all human progress or power; that the "Let-alone" principle is, in all things which ...
— A Joy For Ever - (And Its Price in the Market) • John Ruskin
... cases the evidence-in-chief. By the kindness of a friend in New Zealand I obtained a copy of the depositions taken before the magistrate; with this I have been able to supplement the report of the trial. A collection of newspaper cuttings furnished me with the details of the rest ...
— A Book of Remarkable Criminals • H. B. Irving


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