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) In general, detail is a noun and detailed is an adjective, so in that sentence, detailed would be better. However, outline should be replaced ... Forums Dictionarysearch:  English-Spanish English-French English-Italian English-German English-Dutch English-Russian English-Portuguese English-Polish English-Romanian English-Swedish English-Czech English-Greek English-Turkish English-Chinese English-Japanese English-Korean English-Arabic Spanish-English French-English Italian-English German-English Dutch-English Russian-English Portuguese-English Polish-English Romanian-English Swedish-English Czech-English Greek-English Turkish-English Chinese-English Japanese-English Korean-English Arabic-English Spanish-French Spanish-Portuguese Spanish-Catalan French-Spanish Portuguese-Spanish Englishdefinition Englishsynonyms Englishcollocations Englishusage Italiandefinition Spanishdefinition Spanishsynonyms Catalandefinition Spanish French Italian Login Register What'snew Search Rules/Help/FAQ Members InterfaceLanguage Menu Login Register Installtheapp Install Forums EnglishOnly EnglishOnly Youareusinganoutofdatebrowser.Itmaynotdisplaythisorotherwebsitescorrectly.Youshouldupgradeoruseanalternativebrowser. Detailvs.detailed Threadstarter musicgold Startdate Jan11,2011 M musicgold SeniorMember Tutsi Quiteoftenthannot,Igetconfusedwiththeuseofdetailanddetailed.Forexample,Ifeelthat‘detail’canbereplacedby‘detailed’inthefollowingsentence,withoutchangingthemeaningofthesentence.Isthereasimpleruletodifferentiatebetweenthesetwowords? 1.Theypublishedadetailreportoutliningallthecasefacts. Thanks, MG.   Lastedited:Jan11,2011 JulianStuart SeniorMember SonomaCountyCA English(UKthenUS) ThatsentencedoesnotlooklikeitwaswrittenbyanativeEnglishspeaker.(Edit:Inowrealizeitwasprobablyyouwhowroteit)Ingeneral,detailisanounanddetailedisanadjective,sointhatsentence,detailedwouldbebetter.However,outlineshouldbereplacedby"outlining"or"whichoutlines"Also,ifitprovidesanoutline,itcannotatthesametimeprovidedetails-theconceptsarealmostoppositesofeachother. Theypublishedadetailedreportprovidingallthecasefacts.   Lastedited:Jan11,2011 M musicgold SeniorMember Tutsi ThanksJulianStuart. Ofcourseitisnotbywrittenbyanativespeaker.Ifixedthetyporelatedto'outline'. Ingeneral,detailisanounanddetailedisanadjective, Clicktoexpand... Butsometimesanouncanbeusedasanadjective.AlotoftimesIhear'detailinstructions'and'detaillist'.   JulianStuart SeniorMember SonomaCountyCA English(UKthenUS) Indeed,andyoursentencecontainsanexample:"casefacts".Whenyouusethenoun,itseemslikethemeaningisliketheadjectivalphrase"relatedtothenoun"-"factsrelatedtothecase" Iwouldsay"detailinstructions"shouldbe"detailedinstructions"inyourexample.However,ifitisinstructionsthatareaboutdetailsratherthanbeingdetailedthemselves,then"detailinstructions"wouldbeOK.A"detaillist"wouldsimplybealistrelatedtodetailswhilea"detailedlist"wouldbealistofanysortwhichgoesintolotsofdetaildescribingwhatevertheitemsare.   M musicgold SeniorMember Tutsi Thanks. Iwashopingtogetakindofthumbrule.   Youmustloginorregistertoreplyhere. Share: Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Email Share Link Forums EnglishOnly EnglishOnly Top