Detailed
['diːteɪld] or [dɪ'teld]
Definition
(adj.) developed or executed with care and in minute detail; 'a detailed plan'; 'the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion'- John Buchan; 'the carefully elaborated theme' .
Edited by Adrian--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Detail
Typist: Terrence
Examples
- The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Millers were detailed from the ranks to run the mills along the line of the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In obedience to my request Perdita detailed the melancholy circumstances that led to this event. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- So they fell into the confusion of making immediate and detailed proposals that have nothing to do with the attainment of their ideal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All this work was going on at the same time, there being a sufficient number of men detailed for that purpose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have detailed the perfections of my sister; and yet she was utterly unlike Idris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sullivan is appointed to the command of all the forces detailed for the protection of the line from here to New Carthage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She asked him the particulars of his transaction with Isaac, which he detailed accurately. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the treatment of chilblains we give a detailed list of formulas from the works and practice of a number of the most eminent physicians and surgeons. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- If it were attempted to offer here a detailed explanation of the varied and numerous operations of the quadruplex, this article would assume the proportions of a treatise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The fellows who had been detailed to accompany me were of one of the smaller hordes, and therefore did not know me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- To diminish the food for the disease, I permitted the company detailed with me to proceed to Panama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Four thousand men were at the same time detailed to act under General Smith directly from Chattanooga. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was detailed to act as quartermaster and commissary to the regiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Both wire and batteries were poor, and one of the men detailed by the authorities to watch the test remarked quietly, in a friendly way: You are not going to have much show. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There is every reason to believe that the events he detailed, though distorted in the description by his diseased imagination, really happened. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Two men and one mule were detailed to each reel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Insulated wires were wound upon reels, two men and a mule detailed to each reel. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Blacksmiths were detailed and set to work making the tools necessary in railroad and bridge building. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It will take time and endless labor for a detailed study of social problems in the light of this growing knowledge. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Where are the detailed proposals by specialists, for decent housing and working conditions, for educational reform, for play facilities? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A detailed description of all its machinery would fill a volume, but we must now limit ourselves to a bare enumeration of some of the most remarkable features. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The ancient, abstract and wholesale justice is breaking up into detailed and carefully adapted treatment of individual offenders. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The assembling of the front axle, dash and radiator are fully as interesting as the unit just described, but space will not permit a detailed explanation of them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- THE WANDERER We had a very serious conversation in Buckingham Street that night, about the domestic occurrences I have detailed in the last chapter. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I detailed officers to muster in a portion of them, but mustered three in the southern part of the State myself. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The unquestioned need for experts in politics is full of the very real danger that detailed preparation may give us a bureaucracy--a government by men divorced from human tradition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Future explorations of an indefinitely more detailed and extensive sort remain to be made. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I made an examination-- He detailed the result of the examination. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Pray let me have a detailed account of what the circumstances are which have disturbed you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Terrence