单词 | in detail |
释义 | > as lemmasin (†the) detail a. The dealing with matters item by item; detailed treatment; attention to particulars. Esp. in phrase in (†the) detail, item by item; part by part; minutely; circumstantially. So to go into detail, i.e. to deal with or treat a thing in its individual particulars. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > specifically [phrase] > in detail from point to pointa1393 in speciala1398 specialityc1485 in particularity1559 in piecemeal1561 in (the) detail1603 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > scrupulous care or attention to detail chariness1571 minuteness1640 exactness1645 particularity1669 nicety1711 exactitude1735 narrowness1817 particularness1859 scrupulousness1863 detail1868 scrupulosity1879 meticulosity1887 meticulousness1909 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 372 As if a man would say, that necessary it is for him to offer wrong in detaile, who mindeth to do right in the gross. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) The particular Circumstances of an Affair; as These advantages need not be offered in Detail to your View. 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man (rev. ed.) Design sig. *v I was unable to treat this part of my subject more in detail. 1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. I. 320 They..perhaps..condemned them in the gross for defects, which they thought not worth while to mention in the detail. 1785 W. Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 163 The consequences need not, to use the fashionable phrase, be given in detail. 1840 W. E. Gladstone Church Princ. 69 The fear of punishment in the gross or in the detail. 1847 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Wks. (1906) I. 332 His revelations destroy their credit by running into detail. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 110 Relieved from the drudgery of detail. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 558 The tale, which is told in great detail, is doubtless mythical in its details. 1884 Law Times Rep. 16 Feb. 773/2 We had to go into detail, so as to make the case clear. in detail b. Military. in detail: by the engagement of small portions of an army or force one after another. war of detail, a war carried on after this fashion, instead of by general engagements. (Often figurative.) ΚΠ 1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 1 Their war has been one of detail, not of principle. 1842 H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. 85 Pursuing a war of detail instead of acting on some uniform scheme. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 2 Being without union, [it] is also without strength, and has been beaten in detail. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xiii. 116 Without concert..without a leader they would be destroyed in detail. 1886 G. T. Stokes Ireland & Celtic Church 293 He [Brian Boru] defeated his enemies in detail. < as lemmas |
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