Hypertext Webster Gateway: "detailing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Detail \De"tail\ (d[-e]*t[=a]l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Detailed}
(-t[=a]ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Detailing}.] [Cf. F.
d['e]tailler to cut up in pieces, tell in detail. See
{Detail}, n.]
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.

Syn: {Detail}, {Detach}.

Usage: Detail respect the act of individualizing the person
or body that is separated; detach, the removing for
the given end or object.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

detailing
n : an individualized description of a particular instance [syn:
{particularization}, {particularisation}]


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