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Detailed   /dɪtˈeɪld/   Listen
verb
Detail  v. t.  (past & past part. detailed; pres. part. detailing)  
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.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
3.
To provide with fine or intricate added decoration.
Synonyms: Detail, Detach. Detail respects the act of individualizing the person or body that is separated; detach, the removing for the given end or object.


adjective
detailed  adj.  
1.
Developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, a detailed plan.
Synonyms: elaborate, elaborated.
2.
Containing details; containing subordinate parts as well as more general discussion; of a discourse; as, a specific and detailed account of the accident. Opposite of sketchy, general, vague.
Synonyms: circumstantial, particularized, particularised.
3.
Having fine or intricate added decoration.





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"Detailed" Quotes from Famous Books



... made a more detailed statement. He said that "the government was taking all necessary steps to make sure that the food supply as well as fuel and other essentials should not be interrupted on the railways or ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling
... from the nature of the scene passing in the cockpit, and the noise of the guns, the whole of His LORDSHIP'S expressions could not be borne in mind, nor even distinctly heard, by the different persons attending him. The most interesting parts are here detailed. ...
— The Death of Lord Nelson • William Beatty
... words. Mr. CONRAD never made me believe that the new captain would go so near sharing his mate's superstitious panic (which is perhaps because I know little of sailor-men save what he has taught me); and in the incident, so curiously and deliberately detailed, of his finding the quinine bottles filled with a worthless substitute, and letting them "each in turn" slip to ground, I had again the most unusual shock of being unable to accept the credibility of his invention. This ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 4, 1917 • Various
... him how, if he did not know the place, he would know it when he saw it. Here he suddenly ceased to be hazy, and became alarmingly minute. He gave a description of the house detailed enough for an auctioneer. I have forgotten nearly all the details except the last two, which were that the lamp-post was painted green, and that there was a red ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton
... old Chipewyan Indian named Black Meat, unexpectedly came in, and instantly recognised the plan. He then took the charcoal from Beaulieu, and inserted a track along the sea-coast, which he had followed in returning from a war excursion, made by his tribe against the Esquimaux. He detailed several particulars of the coast and the sea, which he represented as studded with well-wooded islands, and free from ice, close to the shore, in the month of July, but not to a great distance. He described two other rivers ...
— Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 • John Franklin


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