DETAIL

add. ·noun a detail drawing.

2. detail ·noun a narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

3. detail ·noun to tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

4. detail ·noun the selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.

5. detail ·noun 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.

6. detail ·add. ·noun a minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, ·etc., or (called larger details) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower.

7. detail ·noun to relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.