different between rehearse vs detail

English

Etymology

From Middle English rehersen, from Anglo-Norman reherser (“to repeat word-for-word”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [???h??s]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???h?s/

Verb

rehearse (third-person singular simple present rehearses, present participle rehearsing, simple past and past participle rehearsed)

1. (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.

2. (transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "When he would have his verses read":

     In sober mornings, do not thou reherse

     The holy incantation of a verse ...

4. (transitive, theater) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.

Derived terms

• rehearsal

Translations

English

Etymology

French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?di?te?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?dite?l/, (also) /d??te?l/
• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /d??te?l/, /?di?te?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /d??te?l/, /?dite?l/
• Rhymes: -i?te?l, -e?l
• Hyphenation: de?tail

Noun

detail (countable and uncountable, plural details)

1. (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.

2. (uncountable) A profusion of details.

3. (uncountable) The small things that can escape casual notice.
4. Something considered trivial enough to ignore.

5. (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.

6. (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
7. An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
8. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
9. (paintings) a selected portion of a painting

Synonyms

• (something considered trivial enough to ignore): minutia, technicality, trifle, triviality
• (personal information): particulars
• (military: temporary unit): contingent, detachment
• (paintings): portion, section

Derived terms

• in detail
• detail-oriented
• security detail

Translations

See also

• deets
• overview
• bird's-eye view
• big picture

Verb

detail (third-person singular simple present details, present participle detailing, simple past and past participle detailed)

1. (transitive) To explain in detail.
   • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:

     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.

2. (transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /?di?te?l/)

3. (transitive, military) to assign to a particular task

Synonyms

• (to explain in detail): specify
• (military: to assign to a particular task): detach

Derived terms

• detailing

Translations

Anagrams

• atelid, dietal, dilate, laited, tailed

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

detail m

1. detail

Declension

Synonyms

• podrobnost f

Related terms

• detailní

Further reading

• detail in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• detail in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French détail, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de??t?i?/
• Hyphenation: de?tail
• Rhymes: -?i?

Noun

detail n (plural details, diminutive detailtje n)

1. detail

Derived terms

• detailhandel
• detaillist

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: detail

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch detail, from French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ta?l/
• Hyphenation: dê?ta?il

Noun

dêtail (first-person possessive detailku, second-person possessive detailmu, third-person possessive detailnya)

1. detail.

Alternative forms

• detil

Derived terms

Further reading

• “detail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.