in detail

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Adverb

in detail

1. (idiomatic) Thoroughly; including every detail; with all particulars.

   I do not understand it; would you please explain it to me in detail.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

2. (military) By engaging small sections of an enemy army rather than fighting a single pitched battle against the entire enemy force.

   Darius defeated the rebels in detail.

Derived terms

• into detail

Translations

with all particulars

• Arabic: بِالتَّفْصِيل (bi-t-tafṣīl), تَفْصِيلًا (tafṣīlan)
• Armenian: մանրամասն (hy) (manramasn)
• Azerbaijani: təfsilən
• Belarusian: падрабя́зна (padrabjázna)
• Bulgarian: подро́бно (bg) (podróbno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詳細地／详细地 (zh) (xiángxì de), 詳盡地／详尽地 (zh) (xiángjìn de)

• Esperanto: detale
• Finnish: yksityiskohtaisesti (fi)
• French: en détail (fr), par le menu (fr)
• German: ausführlich (de), in allen Einzelheiten, detailliert (de)
• Italian: nei dettagli, in dettaglio
• Japanese: 詳しく (ja) (くわしく, kuwashiku), 詳細に (ja) (しょうさいに, shōsai ni)
• Korean: 자세히 (ko) (jasehi)
• Latin: nōminātim
• Persian: با جزئیات (bâ joz'iyât), دقیقاً (daqiqan), مفصلاً (mofassalan)
• Polish: szczegółowo (pl)
• Portuguese: em detalhes, detalhadamente
• Russian: подро́бно (ru) (podróbno), обстоя́тельно (ru) (obstojátelʹno), в дета́лях (v detáljax), дета́льно (ru) (detálʹno)
• Spanish: en detalle, con detenimiento
• Swedish: utförligt (sv)
• Turkish: ayrıntılı bir şekilde, detaylı bir şekilde, detaylıca, etraflıca (tr)
• Ukrainian: докла́дно (dokládno), наро́здріб (narózdrib), дета́льно (detálʹno)

Anagrams

• intailed, nailed it