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DETAILING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does detailing mean?
• DETAILING (noun)
The noun DETAILING has 1 sense:
1. an individualized description of a particular instance
Familiarity information: DETAILING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An individualized description of a particular instance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
detailing; particularisation; particularization
Hypernyms ("detailing" is a kind of...):
description (the act of describing something)
Derivation:
detail (provide details for)
Context examples
CDISC terminology for anatomical location or specimen further detailing the side(s) of interest.
(CDISC SDTM Laterality Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
On my being settled at Doctor Strong's I wrote to her again, detailing my happy condition and prospects.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
CDISC terminology for anatomical location or specimen further detailing directionality.
(CDISC SDTM Directionality Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Whilst the Seneschal of Villefranche had been detailing the evil doings of his tenants, Alleyne had been unable to take his eyes from the face of Lady Tiphaine.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Qualifier for anatomical location or specimen further detailing the portion or totality, which means arrangement of, or apportioning of an entity.
(CDISC SDTM Portion/Totality Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An annual report, compiled and published by the staff of the financial management branch, detailing how the NCI distributed its budget among the various research programs and funding mechanisms.
(NCI Annual Fact Book, NCI Thesaurus)
A plan detailing how a nonclinical study will be performed in order to represent the phenomenon under examination, to answer the research questions that have been asked, and defining the methods of data analysis.
(Nonclinical Study Design, NCI Thesaurus)
Terminology related to the plan detailing how a study will be performed in order to represent the phenomenon under examination, to answer the research questions that have been asked, and defining the methods of data analysis.
(CDISC SEND Study Design Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A stare or two at Fanny, as William helped her out of the carriage, was all the voluntary notice which this brother bestowed; but he made no objection to her kissing him, though still entirely engaged in detailing farther particulars of the Thrush's going out of harbour, in which he had a strong right of interest, being to commence his career of seamanship in her at this very time.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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