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detail
What does detail mean?
detail (noun): an individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use detail in a sentence?
- Several of the details are similar. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
Where does detail come from?
Borrowed from Middle French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “detail” mean?
an institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school
Not quite: that's what academy means.
an individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part
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money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions
Not quite: that's what cash means.
moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good
Not quite: that's what evil means.
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