Rehearse vs Detail - What's the difference?
rehearse | detail | Related terms |
To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
To narrate; to relate; to tell.
To practice by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy .
To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
* Charles Dickens
(countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
(uncountable) A profusion of details.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
(countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
(military) A temporary unit or assignment.
A part distinct from the whole.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
to explain in detail
* 2014 , Ian Black, "
(US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car) ()
(military) to assign to a particular task
Rehearse is a related term of detail.
As a verb rehearse
is to repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.As a noun detail is
detail.rehearse
English
Verb
(rehears)- There's no need to rehearse the same old argument; we've heard it before, and we all agree.
- The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
- The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
- The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.
- He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her.
Derived terms
* rehearsaldetail
English
Noun
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail , a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
Synonyms
* (something considered trivial enough to ignore) technicality, trifle, triviality * (personal information) particulars * contingent, detachmentDerived terms
* in detail * detail-orientedSee also
* overview * bird's-eye view * big pictureVerb
(en verb)- I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
- We need to have the minivan detailed .