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dovetailed

/duhv-teyld/US // ˈdʌvˌteɪld //

燕尾服,燕尾式,燕尾形,燕尾状

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Heraldry.

    • : noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.

Examples

  • The cellphone use among pedestrians has dovetailed insidiously with hyper-gentrification, Moss says.

  • “I think the Old-Fashioned craze has also dovetailed with a lot of drinkers coming back to whiskey,” Simonson says.

  • Obama's message was narrowly about peace, but it dovetailed with Molad's.

  • The segment was called “Swinging in the Suburbs,” and it dovetailed with a Newsweek cover story I wrote on unfaithful women.

  • In one form of feather key the part within the piece carried by the shaft is dovetailed as shown at (f).

  • The pieces are firmly dovetailed together, the front being clean and the dovetailing blind.

  • The dovetailed bit of iron is knocked downwards and falls off, and the ring may then be lifted clear of the casting.

  • On this account some watches have slots dovetailed in form, being wider at the bottom, others have ruby pins of this form.

  • Fig. 37 is "Oblique Dovetail Halving," one side of the piece being dovetailed.