DETAILS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does details mean? 

• DETAILS (noun)
  The noun DETAILS has 1 sense:

1. true confidential information

  Familiarity information: DETAILS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETAILS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

True confidential information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

details; inside information

Context example:

after the trial he gave us the real details

Hypernyms ("details" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "details"):

dope; low-down; poop; the skinny (slang terms for inside information)

 Context examples 

You may be working on the details of a manuscript, giving speeches or appearances, negotiating an important contract, or if you are a lawyer, preparing opening and closing remarks for a court case.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“These results help us understand how the brain processes the details of our past waking experiences or episodic memories.”

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

Previous observations of this nebula with space telescopes studied different wavelengths of infrared light, which did not reveal the details SOFIA detected.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

That may mean asking more details about the health history of women during pregnancy.

(First-time pregnancy complications linked to increased risk of hypertension later in life, National Institutes of Health)

If you know where your friend is located, you can focus your attention on spatial details to search for her.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

The new ALMA images showcase the explosive nature in high resolution, unveiling important details about the distribution and high-velocity motion of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas inside the streamers.

(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But when the venerable explorer hurtled by, the data showed that the lightning-associated radio signals didn't match the details of the radio signals produced by lightning here at Earth.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

Expansion microscopy enables researchers to resolve details down to about 70 nanometers, while 300 nanometers was the previous limit with a conventional microscope.

(Bigger is better for brain tissue understanding, NSF)

Spectra enable scientists to tease out details about what exoplanets are like, such as aspects of the temperature, composition and structure of their atmospheres.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

Using these signals, scientists can measure the spacecraft's speed to a precision of 0.004 inches (0.1 millimeters) per second, and then calculate the details of the gravity field.

(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)