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detail
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/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?di?te?l/
- (verb)
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?di?te?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?dite?l/
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?di?te?l/
- Rhymes: -i?te?l, -e?l
- Hyphenation: de?tail
Noun
detail (countable and uncountable, plural details)
- (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- (uncountable) The small things that can escape casual notice.
- Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
- (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- (military, law enforcement) 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.
- (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)
- (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.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- (transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /?di?te?l/)
- (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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
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earmark
English
Etymology
ear +? mark
Pronunciation
Verb
earmark (third-person singular simple present earmarks, present participle earmarking, simple past and past participle earmarked)
- (transitive) To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
- (transitive, by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose, to allocate.
Synonyms
- (set aside for a particular purpose): appropriate, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart
Translations
Noun
earmark (plural earmarks)
- A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
- (US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
- A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
- 1860, John Wharton, The Law Lexicon
- Money has no earmark.
- 1959, Brunettie Burrow, Angels in White
- I saw in my patient one of the most forbidding men I have ever met. He had all the earmarks of a criminal.
- 1860, John Wharton, The Law Lexicon
Coordinate terms
- (US politics): phonemark
Translations
See also
- expenditure
- pork barrel
References
- http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?earmark
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