(n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.
(v. t.) To cut to a dovetail.
(v. t.) To join by means of dovetails.
(v. t.) To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The march will dovetail with the People’s Climate March , which will take place a week later.
(2) For better (in the primaries) and for worse (right now), he seems to live in the angry moment Second, Trump’s impulsive temperament style dovetails with his central life goal – the narcissistic aim of promoting Donald Trump.
(3) He evaded Brede Hangeland for the winning goal with rare ease and dovetailed with Andy Carroll as if they were trusted old companions.
(4) Potential release of the photographs dovetails with another imminent torture disclosure.
(5) The comments appeared to dovetail with reports that two of the vessels malfunctioned at the same time and in the same way.
(6) In many respects the developmental crises of adolescence dovetail with critical conflicts of Borderline Personality Disorder--e.g., identity formation and separation-individuation.
(7) Steve Tsang, an expert on Chinese politics at the University of Nottingham, said that the central government may only tolerate the breed of citizen journalism that took down Zhang as long as it dovetails with the party's priorities.
(8) The discussion dovetails in with the broader debate about the characteristics and dissemination of scientific labour management in Britain.
(9) On the other hand, he is open to the possibility, but as Sutton says, it depends on how it dovetails with Omega-Pharma-Quickstep’s need for road race success.
(10) Therefore to be told that schools in poor areas perform worse, that poor kids never catch up, that terrible acts of violence happen in schools full of deprived pupils, all dovetails neatly with the principle that deprivation is a bad thing.
(11) The UK’s leading 4G network will now dovetail with the UK’s biggest fibre network … consumers and businesses will benefit from new products and services as well as from increased investment and innovation.” Patterson said he expected the deal to be approved by the UK Competition and Markets Authority, without having to change the terms.
(12) Of course, the devil's in the detail and there would be much to work out if one were to think seriously about dovetailing the law of defamation with a new regulatory regime.
(13) Chief reasons for the change to NLM proved to be local circumstances, currency, arrangement of subclasses by NLM, its dovetailing with the LC Classification, and reliance upon nationally centralized cataloging services.
(14) Yellen’s comments dovetail with concerns about inequality among other global central bankers.
(15) They propose the use of a high-copper filing admix allow in Clas II preparation with occlusal dovetail and the use of high-copper spherical alloy in box only restorations.
(16) The model has multiple solutions for the foveal zone size, but the best fits predict a diameter of 5.3 or 7.3 min of visual angle; these values dovetail nicely with our empirical estimates of the foveal zone size.
(17) Together, the law on profanity and the bill on foreign words serve as a two-pronged attempt to cleanse the Russian language in order to ensure its “purity”, a moral crusade that dovetails with President Vladimir Putin’s ideological hopes to create a “ national and spiritual identity ” for Russia.
(18) You feel Stone has brought a lot of herself to the role of Gwen Stacy; her and Gwen's concerns dovetail in other ways, too.
(19) It just might take him a while to recover after playing his first game, it’s not so easy.” Manchester United see off Midtjylland with Marcus Rashford’s debut double Read more There is Van Gaal’s attention to detail in a nutshell, dovetailing nicely with United’s long-standing philosophy of promoting youth.
(20) In 1991, Gavin Millar filmed Call For The Dead's successor A Murder Of Quality, with Denholm Elliott as Smiley, his nervous diffidence dovetailing perfectly with the character.
Joint
Definition:
(n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.
(n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation.
(n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg.
(n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.
(n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.
(n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.
(n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.
(a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action.
(a.) Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.
(a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc.
(a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.
(v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.
(v. t.) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
(v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
(v. t.) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
(v. i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(2) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(3) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(4) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(5) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(6) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
(7) Apart from their pathogenic significance, these results may have some interest for the clinical investigation of patients with joint diseases.
(8) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(9) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(10) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
(11) On the basis of these data, the computer, upon the basis of a program specially developed for this purpose, automatically calculates the corresponding amount of negative-points, which parallels the severity of the joint changes, i.e.
(12) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(13) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
(14) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
(15) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(16) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(17) Hypermobility and instability following injury and degenerative joint disease is poorly understood and often not recognized as the cause of the patients symptoms.
(18) One middle carpal joint of each horse was injected 3 times with 100 mg of 6-alpha-methylprednisolone acetate, at 14-day intervals.
(19) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(20) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.