1. detail - Noun
2. detail - Verb
A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhy can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person. François de La Rochefoucauld
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. Giorgio Armani
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! T. E. Lawrence
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. Honoré de Balzac
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead