Collocations withdetail
These are words often used in combination withdetail.
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accurate detail
Though the story is fictional, recent scholarship has uncovered a greater measure of historically accurate detail in its setting than had previously been realized.
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additional detail
Extended response that contains additional detail that is irrelevant, repetitive or bizarre.
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administrative detail
Such policies cannot just be legislated; they must be worked out in administrative detail.
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anatomical detail
A simple pendulum might be used as an abstract physical model for a leg, whereas a symbolic model of the leg may include any amount of anatomical detail.
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architectural detail
His output remains distinct and individual, but their influence has instilled a concern for architectural detail which is at once practical and intellectual.
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biographical detail
We are introduced, via biographical detail, interviews and a brief overview of the dramatist's main concerns, to each of these writers' works.
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careful detail
What it lacks in theoretical gusto is more than made up for in careful detail.
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complete detail
The forms chosen here and later allow much of the analysis to be carried out in complete detail.
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concrete detail
One patient may need to have the research described in concrete detail to make his decisions.
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considerable detail
One of these she could recollect in considerable detail.
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contextual detail
In the scenes provided in the hinting task only limited contextual detail is provided and so context must be constructed to some extent.
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day-to-day details
Our clause has no such high aspirations: it is aimed at the day-to-day details of the operation which are sometimes overlooked.
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decorative detail
The homes varied in decorative details such as dormers and other exterior features.
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descriptive detail
Throughout the interview, clarifying questions were asked, prompting the participant to describe experiences in more descriptive detail when necessary.
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elaborate detail
They have gone into rather more elaborate detail than one would have wished or thought necessary.
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exact detail
However, the exact detail of the electrode reaction is unimportant in the present development.
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explicit detail
When the film was initially released, it caused a huge degree of controversy due to the wide range of perverse acts performed in explicit detail.
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extensive detail
Issues such as rationalism, materialism, logic, natural philosophy and the practices of magic and alchemy are also covered in extensive detail.
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extraneous detail
Generally speaking, one model is simpler than another if it is easier to understand by a human and contains less extraneous detail.
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factual detail
The general reader may find this book somewhat tedious reading because of the wealth of methodological and factual detail.
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fascinating detail
All these subjects are fully described and supported with fascinating detail.
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fine detail
It must be, then, that in their essential properties and even down to fine detail, languages are cast in the same mold.
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gory detail
We could write all our programs this way by applying elimination operators in gory detail 'on the right'.
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graphic detail
Each page of the book is jammed full of graphic detail for each of the six countries, which should make cross-national comparisons easy.
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historical detail
Furthermore, it provides a wide array of geographic, ethnographic and historical detail, especially regarding the history of colonial occupation, in the respective border areas.
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implementation detail
One therefore seeks a more abstract notion of behaviour that minimises irrelevant implementation detail.
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in great detail
This journal will make an effort to cover the development of this interesting new field in great detail.
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intimate detail
Every intimate detail of our private lives is now known.
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intricate detail
The book presents both the intricate detail of everyday life and illuminates many of the dilemmas of contemporary politics and development.
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irrelevant detail
We have deliberately chosen simple, well-known ones that allow us to illustrate the basic ideas without burdening the reader with irrelevant detail.
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lurid detail
She described the consultation as having been very unpleasant and said that the consultant had described in lurid detail the destruction of life.
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meticulous detail
However, the meticulous detail with which this is achieved makes this quite short book very tough going for all but the most dedicated.
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microscopic detail
Which approach is best to use may depend on the microscopic detail of a particular channel, the specific questions being asked, and the available computational resources.
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minor detail
The references to (75a and b) have of course been inadvertently switched; but this is a minor detail.
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minute detail
It turned the exotic background sounds of folk music into leading characters, larger than life, revealing in minute detail their inner qualities.
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operational detail
I do not want to go into too much operational detail about what we are doing.
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plot detail
Reviews of the game acknowledged this lack of plot detail.
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precise detail
Whether either hypothesis is correct, the plans give us a good deal of precise detail as far as they go.
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realistic detail
Instead, he created mood by means of sensuous shapes, and at the expense of explicit, realistic detail.
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rich detail
Because of their rich detail, however, the papers contain issues that could do with further comparative and theoretical treatment.
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security detail
The prime minister's security detail comprised five men, most of whom remained unnamed in the commission's report.
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structural detail
However, these methods do not provide the structural detail necessary to understand the intermediates that are detected.
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subtle detail
His essays have theoretical sweep and imaginative, subtle detail.
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sufficient detail
His treatment is lucid enough to be comprehensible to a non-expert, but with sufficient detail as to serve as an expert reference.
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technical detail
Much of the technical detail comes from commercial rangeland systems, which have often been under grazed for a relatively short time.
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tiny detail
However, a tiny detail of it is being reconsidered.
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trivial detail
I do not think that this is a matter of trivial detail; important principles are involved.
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vivid detail
Traumatic experiences are retained in all too vivid detail, never to be forgotten.
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wealth of detail
They contain a wealth of detail about teaching techniques and relationships between pupils and between pupils and staff.
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