different between calculate vs detail

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calcul?tus, perfect passive participle of calcul? (“I reckon, originally by means of pebbles”), from calculus (“a pebble”). Refer to calculus for origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kælkj?le?t/, /?kælkj?le?t/
• Hyphenation: cal?cu?late

Verb

calculate (third-person singular simple present calculates, present participle calculating, simple past and past participle calculated)

1. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

2. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
3. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
4. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.

5. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     [Religion] is […] calculated for our benefit.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (determine value of or solution to): compute, reckon (old), work out
• (determine values or solutions): compute, reckon (old)

Derived terms

• backcalculate
• calculating

Related terms

• calculation
• calculus
• calculator
• incalculable

Translations

Further reading

• calculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• calculate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “calculate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Verb

calcul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of calcul?
   1. "calculate ye, compute ye"
   2. (figuratively) "consider ye as, esteem ye"

Participle

calcul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of calcul?tus

English

Etymology

French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?di?te?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?dite?l/, (also) /d??te?l/
• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /d??te?l/, /?di?te?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /d??te?l/, /?dite?l/
• Rhymes: -i?te?l, -e?l
• Hyphenation: de?tail

Noun

detail (countable and uncountable, plural details)

1. (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.

2. (uncountable) A profusion of details.

3. (uncountable) The small things that can escape casual notice.
4. Something considered trivial enough to ignore.

5. (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.

6. (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
7. An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
8. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
9. (paintings) a selected portion of a painting

Synonyms

• (something considered trivial enough to ignore): minutia, technicality, trifle, triviality
• (personal information): particulars
• (military: temporary unit): contingent, detachment
• (paintings): portion, section

Derived terms

• in detail
• detail-oriented
• security detail

Translations

See also

• deets
• overview
• bird's-eye view
• big picture

Verb

detail (third-person singular simple present details, present participle detailing, simple past and past participle detailed)

1. (transitive) To explain in detail.
   • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:

     It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.

2. (transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /?di?te?l/)

3. (transitive, military) to assign to a particular task

Synonyms

• (to explain in detail): specify
• (military: to assign to a particular task): detach

Derived terms

• detailing

Translations

Anagrams

• atelid, dietal, dilate, laited, tailed

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

detail m

1. detail

Declension

Synonyms

• podrobnost f

Related terms

• detailní

Further reading

• detail in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• detail in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French détail, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de??t?i?/
• Hyphenation: de?tail
• Rhymes: -?i?

Noun

detail n (plural details, diminutive detailtje n)

1. detail

Derived terms

• detailhandel
• detaillist

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: detail

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch detail, from French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ta?l/
• Hyphenation: dê?ta?il

Noun

dêtail (first-person possessive detailku, second-person possessive detailmu, third-person possessive detailnya)

1. detail.

Alternative forms

• detil

Derived terms

Further reading

• “detail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.