different between report vs detail

English

Etymology

From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin report?re (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + port?re.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???p??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /???po?t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???po?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15^thc.]
3. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15^th-18^thc.]
4. (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15^thc.]

5. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19^thc.]

6. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19^thc.]
7. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19^thc.]
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

8. (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).

   Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.

9. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
11. (obsolete) To refer.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre

      Baldwin, his son, […] succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will spare the repeating his description.

12. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

Derived terms

• aforereported
• reporter
• underreport
• unreported

Translations

Noun

report (plural reports)

1. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
2. Reputation.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:

     I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

3. (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34

     While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

     […] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
4. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

   Synonym: subordinate

Derived terms

• (piece of information): on report, report card
• (employee): direct report, indirect report

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (rep?to), ???? (rip?to)

Translations

Further reading

• Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper

French

Etymology

deverbal of reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p??/

Noun

report m (plural reports)

1. postponement
2. deferment

Synonyms

• ajournement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• porter

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.