Definition of Detail

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Detail

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.

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

The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.

To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.

To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called larger details) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower.

A detail drawing.

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Detail Quotations

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
Charles R. Swindoll

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Drew Barrymore

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.
Vladimir Nabokov

Caress the detail, the divine detail.
Vladimir Nabokov

Detail Translations

detail in Afrikaans is besonderheid, detail
detail in Danish is enkelthed
detail in Dutch is bijzonderheid, item, detail
detail in German is Einzelheit, Detail, zuteilen, zuweisen, Detail
detail in Italian is dettaglio
detail in Norwegian is detalj
detail in Portuguese is detalhe
detail in Spanish is adjudicar, detalle, asignar, pormenor
detail in Swedish is detalj

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