What's the difference between detail and thoroughgoing?

Detail


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
  • (n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
  • (n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
  • (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
  • (3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (4) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
  • (5) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (6) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (7) The way how to apply this fixator is described in details.
  • (8) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (9) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (10) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
  • (11) Results of a detailed study of the fibrinolytic enzyme system in pregnant and non-pregnant Nigerians are reported.
  • (12) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
  • (13) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (14) The detailed sequence of the expression of osteoblastic genes in situ has not been fully characterized.
  • (15) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (16) Monoclonal antibodies (MCAs) against porcine immunoglobulin isotypes* G, G1, G2, M and A have been produced and characterized in detail.
  • (17) Detailed treatment data were obtained for 23 cases and 89 matched controls from the childhood cancer cohort.
  • (18) The results show that OKT4-and OKT8-positive lymphocytic subpopulations have a distinct morphological pattern, although some variations in the ultrastructural details of cells in each subset are evident.
  • (19) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
  • (20) Detailed studies of the between-cell aberration distributions give evidence that positive selection against cells with high aberration frequencies has also occurred in these experiments.

Thoroughgoing


Definition:

  • (a.) Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.
  • (a.) Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Stage III a thoroughgoing keratectomy parallel to the limbus was performed, in combination with cataract extraction and coreplasty.
  • (2) However, no one can genuinely believe in or live by this kind of thoroughgoing scepticism for one moment.
  • (3) The Greens have many admirable policies, but we look in vain for a thoroughgoing analysis for fundamental change.
  • (4) Despite its thoroughgoing Englishness, it won admirers in Australia, Canada and Europe.
  • (5) Our claim is based on what we describe as a thoroughgoing commonwealth involvement in the detention, such that it has become a commonwealth detention.” Transfield’s lawyers also gave evidence to the court on Thursday in defence of the validity of its contract.
  • (6) But this may be seen as part of a much more thoroughgoing transformation.
  • (7) Our experience with the ileal-neobladder with non-reflux uretero-intestinal implantation described by LeDuc, and Kock's the thoroughgoing application principles to form a low pressure reservoir for bladder substitution, encouraged us to believe that a good long-term prognosis with respect to renal function can be expected.
  • (8) In the formulation of policy, however, the principle should be applied in a thoroughgoing way and, if it is, it will not have some of the counterintuitive consequences it may have in interpersonal situations.
  • (9) He has ordered Conservatives to do this during the interim period before the publication of a thoroughgoing review of the expenses system by Sir Christopher Kelly's committee on standards in public life at the end of this year.
  • (10) He simply says that he has changed with the times and that he is now a thoroughgoing democrat.” But other analysts suggest that Buhari’s heavy-handed past might be exactly what the country needs.
  • (11) More thoroughgoing restorers might despise the gimcrack painted floorboards in the long gallery (they can still be detected by the attentive eye today), but his creation in the Suffolk countryside was sensational in its day and was a forerunner of many such conversions.
  • (12) A thoroughgoing bias in Western culture impairs the psychiatric and non-psychiatric medical care of the obese person.
  • (13) The recommendations reflect a thoroughgoing analysis of the subjects discussed and are a valuable contribution to improvement of the teaching of preventive medicine.
  • (14) By a thoroughgoing use of odds ratios and higher-order odds ratios, it nevertheless provides a technically accurate account of the key concepts of higher-order interactions among variables, and of models being hierarchical.
  • (15) At the water treatment works, the temporary flood defences erected last year remain "semi-permanent", with a more thoroughgoing barrier aimed at being completed before 2012.
  • (16) Moreover, there is no loss of stain since the fugitive surface impregnation, obtained by the Mulligan method, is replaced by a thoroughgoing block-staining procedure with the nonfading copper phathalocyanine dye astra blue.
  • (17) It promotes a high-wage, high-value economy, powered by an active and thoroughgoing democracy – and aims to provide a counter to some of the "tax-competitive" and mogul-tickling tendencies of the SNP leadership.
  • (18) What’s happening with Jeremy is that we’re just reclaiming our own policies.” Young April Cummings, who might just become the poster-child for resurgent Scottish Labour as did Mhairi Black for the SNP, introduced Corbyn in Edinburgh as “this wonderful man,” and a Miss Stewart – “Ms, actually” (this was Edinburgh) – who left Labour “decades ago” – had travelled to give her thoroughgoing approval to Mr Corbyn.
  • (19) Partly, I think, by not being overly concerned with logic and thoroughgoing consistency.
  • (20) It adds: "The inescapable conclusion from the committee's work is that the UN organisation needs thoroughgoing reform - and needs it urgently."

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