different between entry vs detail

English

Alternative forms

• entery (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intr?re, present active infinitive of intr?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n?tr?, IPA^(key): /??nt?i/
• Rhymes: -?nt?i
• Hyphenation: en?try

Noun

entry (countable and uncountable, plural entries)

1. The act of entering.
2. (uncountable) Permission to enter.

   Children are allowed entry only if accompanied by an adult.

3. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
4. (law) The act of taking possession.
5. (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
6. (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
7. A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
8. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
9. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
10. A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.

    What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?

11. (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.

    The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.

12. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
13. (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
14. (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
    • 1956, Baily's Hunting Directory (page 311)

      Here was an excellent entry of hounds which would have fulfilled the late Earl Bathurst's dictum that breeders should always breed from hounds rather larger than those which they expect to put on.

Usage notes

Ambiguity Prevention

Synonyms

• (act of entering): access, enter, entrance
• (permission to enter): access, admission
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): entrance, ingang, way in (British)
• (passageway between terraced houses): See Thesaurus:alley
• (room just inside the front door of a building): See Thesaurus:entrance hall
• (group within a church):
• (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia): article, lemma, lexeme
• (record in a log): record
• (term in a matrix): element
• (item of data in a database):

Antonyms

• (act of entering): departure, exit, exiting, leaving
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): exit, way out (British)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Tyner, yrent

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.