(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.
Subsume
Definition:
(v. t.) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dawson argued that the health profession has a history of thinking that social care can be "subsumed by medical decisions" when in reality they are two different cultures.
(2) The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) made clear that it would stick to an ultimatum it gave Morsi on Monday that urged the embattled president to respond to a wave of mass protests within 48 hours or face an intervention which would in effect subsume his government.
(3) The paper sets out the arguments in favour of utilising both a 'strict' definition corresponding to the 'nuclear' concept of schizophrenia and a 'broader' definition that also subsumes 'atypical' schizophreniform and related syndromes.
(4) "On the one hand, it is strengthening authors' rights, such as by extending the concept of communication to the public, which subsumes the old broadcasting right, to encompass the activities of those who, like TVC, intervene in the distribution of broadcast services.
(5) Over time, this first wave of dating sites began to be subsumed and crushed by the behemoths: Udate, match.com, datingdirect.com , offering simple functionality, instant messaging features and lots of room for photographs.
(6) There are multiple entities subsumed under this title that have in common the primary destruction of central nervous system myelin with relative sparing of axons.
(7) Then the recession hit and austerity became the narrative that subsumed all debates about freedom.
(8) Severance said I was starting to understand just how much of my life was subsumed by these companies.
(9) All the problems which arose when the test sheet was filled out were recorded and subsumed into one of the following categories: comprehension problems, problems with the answer categories, answer tendency, problems with layout.
(10) Although Muslim societies today can be described as generally homophobic, it’s a mistake to view homophobia as a self-contained problem: it’s part of a syndrome in which the rights of individuals are subsumed in the perceived interests of the community and – often – maintaining an “Islamic” ethos.
(11) The working class is redivided into the hard-working taxpayer and the slothful undeserving poor, with the former subsumed into the "people", the latter into its other.
(12) However, the rich diversity of problems that are subsumed under insomnia or sleep disturbance often remain unappreciated.
(13) Changing the term "DNR" to "No ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)" should discourage health-care providers from subsuming other limitations under the directive to withhold resuscitation.
(14) This study pinpoints one dysfunction that could subsume the severe verbal comprehension defect in autistic and aphasic children.
(15) Subsuming the news from Paris into their extremist platforms, Republican hopefuls moulded their usual anti-immigrant stances into positions against allowing any Syrian refugees into the country – on the rare occasion that they could demonstrate any knowledge of the specifics of Obama’s plan to settle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US.
(16) Essentially, any small party in coalition is in danger of seeing its identity subsumed by its larger partner.
(17) The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test was then used to verify the hypothesis that a selective impairment of cognitive functions subsumed by the integrity of frontal lobes could be demonstrated in Parkinsonian patients.
(18) The results show that the glucocorticoid response element-specific DNA binding domain is essential, and that only the sequence including the amino acids that subsume the first zinc finger through about half of the second zinc finger are absolutely necessary.
(19) A number of behaviors often subsumed under the label "quadrumanous climbing" were distinguished in this study.
(20) A range of different dysphoric symptomologies are subsumed under the general diagnostic label of depression.