detail meaning
EN
[ˈdi(ː)teɪɫ] [dɪˈteɪl] [-eɪl] 
US WDetail
- Detail or details may refer to:
- Complexity or simply presence of a surface texture, work of art, or organizational behaviours
- Level of detail, a 3D computer graphics term
- Auto detailing, the process of thoroughly cleaning a car
- DETAIL (professional journal), a journal for architecture and construction
- Detail (musician)
- Details (magazine), an American men's magazine
- Details (album), a 2002 premiere album by the musical group Frou Frou
- Details (film), a 2003 Swedish film
- Security detail, a military or private team assigned to protect an individual or group
FR détail 
- NounPLdetailsPREdé-SUF-ail
- (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
- Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.
- We missed several important details in the contract.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
- Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
- I don't concern myself with the details of accounting.
- (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.
- (military) A temporary unit or assignment.
- A part distinct from the whole.
- WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
- VerbSGdetailsPRdetailingPT, PPdetailed
- (transitive) to explain in detail.
- I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
- (transitive) (US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car) (.
- We need to have the minivan detailed.
- (transitive, military) to assign to a particular task.
- (transitive) to explain in detail.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- One Hollywood Flood-Lite was used, subdued to 20 amperes and screened by lowering the Lite back of a small headground, until detail in the composition was almost lost to the eye.
- Inset: Giemsa stained preparation showing a detail of the wall of a sporophorocyst (wide arrow) and the wall of a sporophororous vesicle (arrowhead).
- These details are unnecessary and should be abstracted away.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Detailed SEM study showed that putative mechanosensillae are distributed all around the frontal as well as other projections.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- We rely primarily on the Foundational Model of Anatomy for anatomical terms because of its deep coverage, principled organization, and mereotopological detail.
- The model shows the basics, but we still need to flesh out the details.
- This book only glosses over quantum mechanics, and doesn't go into detail.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of detail in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "detail" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.