DETAILING

detailing, particularisation, particularization

(noun) an individualized description of a particular instance

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

detailing

present participle of detail

Noun

detailing (plural detailings)

gerund of detail

Ornamentation on something that has been constructed.

Anagrams

• digilante

Source: Wiktionary


DETAIL

De"tail, n. Etym: [F. détail, fr. détailler to cut in pieces, tell in detail; pref. dé- (L. de or dis-) + tailler to cut. See Tailor.]

1. A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; - - used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. The details of the campaign in Italy. Motley.

2. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

3. (Mil.)

Definition: The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected. Detail drawing, a drawing of the full size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc.

– In detail, in subdivisions; part by part; item; circumstantially; with particularity.

Syn.

– Account; relation; narrative; recital; explanation; narration.

De"tail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Detailing.] Etym: [Cf. F. détailler to cut up in pieces, tell in detail. See Detail, n.]

1. To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.

2. (Mil.)

Definition: To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

Syn.

– Detail, Detach. Detail respect the act of individualizing the person or body that is separated; detach, the removing for the given end or object.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

9 March 2025

CLOG

(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired; “Fear clogged her mind”; “The story was clogged with too many details”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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