detailing

plural detailings

1. countableuncountableA thorough description or explanation.

   Less successful are the flotsam-y parts of the book — the arbitrary releases about Ebbesmeyer’s career struggles or the detailings of one too many garbage finds.

   2009 May 17, Paul Greenberg, “The Oceans’ Junkyards”, in New York Times

2. countableuncountableAn assignment to someone to undertake a particular task.
3. countableuncountableAn ornamentation or decoration on something that has been constructed.

   a dress with elaborate neck detailings

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   Provided are matching satin ribbon detailings, topped with an embroidered floral bouquet in delicate contrasting shades.

   1979, the Consumers Union, Funerals: consumers' last rights, →ISBN

   Terrific, new detailings including see-through full length walkway and platforms with special tank train end couplings

   1982, Railroad Model Craftsman - Volume 51, page 108

   In 1963, the Penrose owners traded up to a giant DeRaffele unsurpassed in exaggerated detailings, including a towering, steel A-frame entryway and crinkle-cut, folded-plate eaves.

   1999, Brian Butko, Kevin Joseph Patrick, Diners of Pennsylvania, →ISBN, page 36

   Early homes, such as Jacob Julian’s Second Empire–style mansion boasted a lot of Romantic influences with elaborate detailing.

   2008, Julie Young, “A Cornucopia of Design”, in Historic Irvington (Images of America), Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 45

   In the next few minutes, Molly tossed dress after dress aside, oohing and aahing at the varied fabrics, the elaborate detailing of each one, until she found a dress that was— / Breathtaking.

   2010, Kieran Kramer, chapter 7, in When Harry Met Molly, St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 66

4. countableuncountableA careful and thorough cleaning and refurbishing of an automobile, aircraft, boat, etc.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of detail