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noun (English)
1. (chiefly woodworking, often attributively)Examples: "[T]heſe muſt be joined at Bottom to the Piles by a ſtrong Dove-tail, and the Piles joined vvith Braces; […]"; "With a warding file cut a dovetail on each of the ends to be joined, as shown by Fig. 1."; "After marking out the pins on the drawer sides, we proceed with the next operation, that is, sawing the dovetails ready for chopping out the waste material."Synonyms: culvertail, fantail, swallowtailattributiveoften
2. (chiefly woodworking, often attributively)attributiveoften
3. (heraldry) A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1).Examples: "I ſhall add other tvvo Forms of Lines, […] The firſt of theſe tvvo is termed Patee, or Dove-Tail, from a Form of Art uſed by Joiners, vvho make Joints one into the other by that Name: […]"; "ASSEMBLEE, [in Heraldry,] a Dovetail or more to hold the tvvo Parts of the Eſcutcheon together, vvhere the Partition Line is, being countercharged, is ſome of the Metal and ſome of the Colour of the Eſcutcheon."; "The ninth is Quarterly per Pale dovetail, Ruby and Topaz; born by the Right Hon. Thomas Bromley, Lord Montfort, &c."
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "[T]heſe Piles ought to be placed contrary to the Stillings, vvhich ſurround or croſs them every three Feet, and Dove-tail'd into the ſquare Supporters; […]"; "In house-building it is further forbidden [by Sultan Muhammed Shah] to dovetail or make the ends of the timbers (e.g. of the roof) fit accurately together, and also to build two verandahs, one on each side of the house, with their floors on a level with the floor of the main building; if two verandahs are used, the floor of one must be lower than that of the main building (kelek anak)."transitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "The executive board dovetailed its decision neatly with the prior projects the company had taken up."; "Through my new project, I dovetail my interests in botany and programming."; "Close contacts are also maintained between the chief operating officers of the railways and the movement and transport officers of the Service departments to dovetail railway transport into the schemes of the fighting forces."figurativelytransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "However, we can construct a single master algorithm M that DPExact learns from unknown distribution D by simply dovetailing the algorithms A. The precise way in which we dovetail the algorithms depends on whether our goal is time or query efficiency."figurativelytransitive
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5. (intransitive, figuratively) Of several things: to combine or fit together well.Examples: "The parts of your essay should dovetail so that it is cohesive and coherent."; "The task now facing Mr Crook and his team in the multi-disciplinary programme is sequencing the works going forward, to ensure track, signalling, station works and overhead line installations dovetail together."figurativelyintransitive
6. (intransitive) To adapt to something; to fit in.Examples: "If I have a row with any fellow, he’s always the first to taunt me with being what he and his friends have made me. I don’t feel it so much now. I used to at first. One dovetails into all that sort of thing in time, and the edge of your feelings, as I may say, wears off by degrees."intransitive
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