different between detail vs division

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin d?v?si?, d?v?si?nem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle d?v?sus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??v???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

   Synonyms: split, lith

   Antonyms: combination, fusion, merger, unification
2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.

   Antonym: multiplication

4. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

5. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

   Hyponyms: square division, triangular division

6. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
7. (taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

8. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
9. (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

10. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
11. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
12. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
13. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.

    Hyponyms: identification division, environment division, data division, procedure division

14. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

    Synonym: (informal) div

Synonyms

• (taxonomy): divisio, phylum

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• separation
• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
• denominator
• fraction
• numerator

Further reading

• division on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

division c (singular definite divisionen, plural indefinite divisioner)

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Declension

Further reading

• “division” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vi.zj??/

Noun

division f (plural divisions)

1. division (act or process of dividing)
2. (arithmetic) division
3. (military) division
4. division (subsection)

Related terms

• diviser

Further reading

• “division” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

division

1. Alternative form of divisioun

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionis, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”)

Noun

division c

1. division; act of dividing (e.g. numbers); large military unit; section of a company
2. (sports) division, league; an organization of sports teams that habitually play against each other for a championship; the level on which a certain team plays, as compared to others

Declension