detail

IPA: dɪtˈeɪɫ

(countable) A part small enough to escape casual notice.
(uncountable) A profusion of details.
(uncountable) The small parts that can escape casual notice.
A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
(countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
(military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
(paintings) A selected portion of a painting.

(transitive) To explain in detail.
(transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/)
(transitive, military, law enforcement) To assign to a particular task.

Examples of "detail" in Sentences

Twitter has a lot of virtues, but discussing policy issues in detail is not one of them.
But I think the overwhelming demand for evidence in detail is really creating a burden for forces.
Another sterol which Windaus has studied in detail, is ergosterol, which occurs partly in ergot and partly in yeast.
What I did take issue with, and I do not see that you specifically answered it in detail, is that God does NOT work temporally as well.
But since most of the MPs I've met lead lives that differ only in detail from the pattern I've just described, I suspect they may know something that we don't.
Exactly how to best do that in detail is what they want more information about, but just knowing that much was quite helpful in terms of focusing their efforts.
As I think Marion Zimmer Bradley once said (and she should have known, having written pornography under pseudonyms), “Describing sex in detail is like describing plumbing.”
On the other hand, we had the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Bild, Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as the Austrian Der Standard and the Neue Zürisches Zeitung covering the story in detail from a very different angle.
The field of evolutionary developmental biology, which studies the genetics of morphology in detail is now a rapidly expanding one, with many of the developmental genetic cascades, particularly in the fruitfly (Drosophila), now catalogued in considerable detail.