Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to detail
Participle: detailed
Gerund: detailing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | detail |
| you | detail |
| he;she;it | details |
| we | detail |
| you | detail |
| they | detail |
Perfect
| I | have detailed |
| you | have detailed |
| he;she;it | has detailed |
| we | have detailed |
| you | have detailed |
| they | have detailed |
Past
| I | detailed |
| you | detailed |
| he;she;it | detailed |
| we | detailed |
| you | detailed |
| they | detailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had detailed |
| you | had detailed |
| he;she;it | had detailed |
| we | had detailed |
| you | had detailed |
| they | had detailed |
Future
| I | will detail |
| you | will detail |
| he;she;it | will detail |
| we | will detail |
| you | will detail |
| they | will detail |
Future Perfect
| I | will have detailed |
| you | will have detailed |
| he;she;it | will have detailed |
| we | will have detailed |
| you | will have detailed |
| they | will have detailed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | detail |
| you | detail |
| he;she;it | detail |
| we | detail |
| you | detail |
| they | detail |
Perfect
| I | have detailed |
| you | have detailed |
| he;she;it | have detailed |
| we | have detailed |
| you | have detailed |
| they | have detailed |
Imperfect
| I | detailed |
| you | detailed |
| he;she;it | detailed |
| we | detailed |
| you | detailed |
| they | detailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had detailed |
| you | had detailed |
| he;she;it | had detailed |
| we | had detailed |
| you | had detailed |
| they | had detailed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would detail |
| you | would detail |
| he;she;it | would detail |
| we | would detail |
| you | would detail |
| they | would detail |
Perfect
| I | would have detailed |
| you | would have detailed |
| he;she;it | would have detailed |
| we | would have detailed |
| you | would have detailed |
| they | would have detailed |
Imperative
| you | detail |
| we | Let's detail |
| you | detail |
Verbs conjugated like 'detail'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'detail'
betail,
de-tail,
defail,
denail,
derail,
detain,
retail,
betall,
betoil,
betrail,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1603, from Fr. détail, from O.Fr. detail "small piece or quantity," from detaillier "cut in pieces," from de- "entirely" + taillier "to cut in pieces." Modern sense is from Fr. en détail "piece by piece, item by item" (as opposed to en gros), a commercial term used where we would today use retail. Military sense is 1708, from notion of "distribution in detail of the daily orders first given in general," including assignment of specific duties. The verb is from 1637.
2. Borrowed from Middle French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).
3. Compare typologically Bulgarian подробност (podrobnost), Czech podrobnost, Russian подро́бность (podróbnostʹ) (akin to дроби́ть (drobítʹ)).
Sample Sentences
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I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
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It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world. [2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:]
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We need to have the minivan detailed.
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Two years after England’s World Cup victory, Stiles was at Wembley again to help Manchester United become the first English team to win the European Cup final. Again Eusébio was one of his opponents, playing for Benfica, and again Stiles was detailed to keep him quiet. […] [2020 October 30, Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, in The Guardian:]