Definitions for detailing

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detailing de·tail·ing

Spelling: [dee-tey-ling]

IPA: /ˈdi teɪ lɪŋ/

Detailing is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 476 anagrams from letters in detailing (adegiilnt).

Definitions for detailing

noun

1. the process of thoroughly cleaning the interior and exterior of a vehicle and doing minor repairs to improve its appearance:
2. an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
3. particulars collectively; minutiae.
4. attention to or treatment of a subject in individual or minute parts:
5. intricate, finely wrought decoration.
6. Engineering. detail drawing.
7. any small section of a larger structure or whole, considered as a unit.
8. Military. an appointment or assignment, as of a small group or an officer, for a special task. the party or person so selected: a particular assignment of duty.
9. the property of an image or of a method of image production to make small, closely spaced image elements individually distinguishable.

Idioms

1. in detail, item by item; with particulars:

verb (used with object)

1. to relate or report with complete particulars; tell fully and distinctly.
2. to mention one by one; specify; list:
3. Military. to appoint or assign for some particular duty:
4. to provide with intricate, finely wrought decoration:
5. to thoroughly clean (a vehicle or part of a vehicle) and do minor repairs to improve its appearance:

Origin of detailing

First recorded in 1970-75; detail ( def 13 ) + -ing¹

Examples for detailing

I did so in a very respectful manner, detailing what had occurred.

But the General said that this was one of his reasons for detailing me to perform this duty.

Prior to the shooting, on Friday, he posted eight videos on YouTube detailing his anger, frustrations, and plans for retribution.

Last January, Vincoli wrote a column for the Yale Daily News detailing self-censorship and protest restrictions on campus.

On many levels, fewer things than science—in detailing where we came from, what we are, how we function—are more human.

She is even-handed in detailing the internecine battles between Insurgents and Regulars for control of the party.

The designer said she wanted to create “new proportions and detailing to turn gymnastic shapes into style essentials.”

He will, however, write tomorrow, detailing all that he has done and means to do.

Let it not be supposed, from what I have just said, that I am detailing any mystery, or penning any romance.

He paid no heed to these obstacles, and why should we waste time in detailing them?