details

noun

true confidential information (Freq. 2)

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after the trial he gave us the real details

• Syn: ↑inside information

• Hypernyms: ↑information, ↑info

• Hyponyms: ↑dope, ↑poop, ↑the skinny, ↑low-down

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◊ 'detail'

A detail is an individual feature or element of something.

I can still remember every single detail of that night.

He described it down to the smallest detail.

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◊ 'details'

If you obtain details of something, you obtain information about it.

You can get details of nursery schools from the local authority.

A pamphlet with further details, describing the course, is available from the Arts Registry.

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Note that you do not say that you obtain `detail' of something.

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