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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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trimming
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??m??/
Noun
trimming (countable and uncountable, plural trimmings)
- (uncountable) The act or process of someone who trims.
- Trimming hedges is easiest when the shears have recently been resharpened.
- (countable) An instance of that act or process.
- I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.
- (countable) Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
- He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.
- (historical) An ornamental accessory to a dress or other piece of clothing.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.i.5:
- “You must know I commissioned a particular friend of mine, Miss Moffat, to buy me a trimming when she went to Paris […].”
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.i.5:
- An accessory or accompaniment.
- Christmas dinner with all the trimmings
- (colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastising.
- to give a boy a trimming
Verb
trimming
- present participle of trim
- I am helping my elderly neighbour by trimming his hedge.
trimming From the web:
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- what trimmings go with turkey
- what trimmings go with gammon
- what trimmings go with goose
- what trimmings go with steak
- what trimmings go with roast lamb
- what trimmings go with roast chicken
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