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are dovetail
noun
A type of joint where adjoining boards are fastened by interlocking fan-shaped cutouts.
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"Those two things are dovetailing" and will help households in the future, he said.
In the new system of construction, plain, flat parts are dovetailed together and then veneered.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. …construction, plain, flat parts are dovetailed together and then veneered.
The stones are dovetailed vertically.… The shape of the tower is a conical frustum.
The wooden elements are dovetailed to each other, so there's no metal to corrode.
Here, and across Ethiopia, drought, high population density, successive failed rains and rapidly rising food prices are dovetailing to create a crisis.
Often a dancer will hook one foot around the other, so that the legs are dovetailed and the ankles crossed, a position in which either partner may take small traveling steps or may be turned.
With Google now officially in the world of voice communications via its Talk product, and Skype furthering its development efforts with API releases, the two company's strategies are dovetailing nicely.
These characters are dovetailed into the story through blackly brilliant comic vignettes, but the essential greatness of this Swan Lake lies in the dreamlike plotting of Jimmy's imaginative world and its atavistic, psychic resonances.
They are dovetailed with our cognition.
It's half maple for Mom, half black walnut for Dad, and the two boxes are dovetailed together just as my parents were for 63 years.
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