dovetail

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the shape of a dove's tail.
2. isim In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes.

   “[T]heſe muſt be joined at Bottom to the Piles by a ſtrong Dove-tail, and the Piles joined vvith Braces; […]”

3. isim A tenon cut into a wedge shape resembling a dove's tail so that it interlocks with a mortise having a corresponding shape in a dovetail joint.
4. isim A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1).

   “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: […]”

5. fiil To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun sense 2.1) or similar joint.

   “[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; […]”

6. fiil To combine or fit (things) together well.

   “The executive board dovetailed its decision neatly with the prior projects the company had taken up.”

7. fiil To interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously.

   “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.”

8. fiil To seamlessly move a melody from one instrument to another.
9. fiil Of several things: to combine or fit together well.

   “The parts of your essay should dovetail so that it is cohesive and coherent.”

10. fiil To adapt to something; to fit in.

    “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.”