Vocabulary : Detachment to Detaining

Detachment : The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. ;; That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. ;; Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
Detail : 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. ;; A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars. ;; The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected. ;; To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order. ;; To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron. ;; A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called larger details) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower. ;; A detail drawing.
Detailed : of Detail
Detailer : One who details.
Detailing : of Detail

Detain : To keep back or from; to withhold. ;; To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. ;; To hold or keep in custody. ;; Detention.
Detainder : A writ. See Detinue.
Detained : of Detain
Detainer : One who detains. ;; The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law. ;; A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.
Detaining : of Detain

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