detail : Idioms & Phrases


Detail drawing

  • a drawing of the full size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc.
Webster 1913

detail file

  • noun (computer science) a computer file containing relatively transient data about a particular data processing task
    transaction file.
WordNet

Guard detail

  • (Mil.), men from a company regiment etc., detailed for guard duty.
Webster 1913

In detail

  • adverb thoroughly (including all important particulars)
    • he studied the snake in detail
WordNet
  • in subdivisions; part by part; item; circumstantially; with particularity.
Webster 1913