Detail

·add. ·noun A detail drawing.

II. Detail ·noun A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

III. Detail ·noun To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

IV. 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.

V. 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.

VI. 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.

VII. 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.