detail

Meanings

Noun

• A part small enough to escape casual notice.
• A profusion of details.
• The small parts that can escape casual notice.
• A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
• A person's name, address and other personal information.
• A temporary unit or assignment.
• An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
• A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
• a selected portion of a painting

Verb

• To explain in detail.
• to assign to a particular task

Related

Similar words

• minutia, technicality, trifle, triviality
• particulars
• contingent, detachment
• portion, section
• specify
• detach

Origin

• French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier.