elaborate detail

collocation in English

meaningsofelaborateanddetail

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elaborate
adjective
uk
/iˈlæb.ər.ət/us
/iˈlæb.ɚ.ət/
containing a lot of careful detail or many ...
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detail
noun
uk
/ˈdiː.teɪl/us
/dɪˈteɪl/us
/ˈdiː.teɪl/
a single piece of information or fact ...
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(Definition ofelaborateanddetailfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They have gone into rather moreelaboratedetailthan one would have wished or thought necessary.
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Schedule 4 sets out inelaboratedetailhow this will work.
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I shall not go intoelaboratedetailon the subject of short and long-term interest rates as these matters will arise in due course on other new clauses.
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Itselaboratedetailincludes two-story brick pilasters supporting a metal roof cornice, and an intermediate cornice supported by cast iron pillars.
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In his style, he preferred broad harmonious effects toelaboratedetail, and he most excelled at marine landscapes.
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It is one of five nearly identical post office buildings across the state, all featuringelaboratedetailand decoration.
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He proclaimed his innocence, and justified his actions inelaboratedetailin his will.
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Probes were used when necessary to clarify or elaborate details, and representative anecdotes were collected.
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The heads, feet and hands are created through the use of molds but the bodies are handcrafted, often withelaboratedetail, and painted in various colors.
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Practice, however, has shown that those who submit projects are asked to submit such elaborate details that very often, they do not even know where to start.
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N also displays secondary working with obsidian flakes to elaborate details within the finished contour lines.
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It also displays secondary working with obsidian flakes to elaborate details within the finished contour lines.
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Before the late 19th century, they rarely fashioned items with elaborate details or extra decoration, but only made things for their intended uses.
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Researches have found drawings of fish etched on temple walls in such elaborate details that they could be classified as well as etchings of men with nets.
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Fans love his melodramatic situations and the elaborate details he works into his fictional world, such as his construction of a partial language for his great apes.
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