battalion vs detail

battalion

noun
  • A great number of things. 

  • Any large body of troops. 

  • an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade. 

  • An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment. 

verb
  • To form into battalions. 

detail

noun
  • A profusion of details. 

  • An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part. 

  • A part considered trivial enough to ignore. 

  • A person's name, address and other personal information. 

  • A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars. 

  • A selected portion of a painting. 

  • A part small enough to escape casual notice. 

  • The small parts that can escape casual notice. 

  • A temporary unit or assignment. 

verb
  • To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/) 

  • To explain in detail. 

  • To assign to a particular task. 

How often have the words battalion and detail occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )