The meaning of Dovetail

verb

Give or grant someone (power, status, or recognition).

Usage examples:

The powers accorded to the head of state

noun

An official agreement or treaty.

Usage examples:

Opposition groups refused to sign the accord

noun

A formal agreement, or the condition of agreeing

Usage examples:

[ c ] both parties signed an accord last week in geneva that may finally bring an end to the confli…

verb

Have the same opinion about something; concur.

Usage examples:

I completely agree with your recent editorial

verb

Occur at the same time.

Usage examples:

Publication is timed to coincide with a major exhibition

verb

Be of the same opinion; agree.

Usage examples:

The authors concurred with the majority

verb

To agree or have the same opinion as someone else

Usage examples:

He said the mayor should not be reelected, and the voters concurred.

verb

To agree with someone or something

Usage examples:

Concur with sb/sth the new report concurs with previous findings., concur that the board members co…

verb

Comply with rules, standards, or laws.

Usage examples:

The kitchen does not conform to hygiene regulations

verb

To behave according to a group’s usual standards and expectations, or to operate according to a rule

Usage examples:

The contract requires that managers conform to high standards of personal conduct., wood-burning st…

verb

To obey a rule or reach the necessary stated standard

Usage examples:

Conform to sth 70% of these imports come from pigs raised under conditions that would not conform t…

verb

Have a mutual relationship or connection, in which one thing affects or depends on another.

Usage examples:

The study found that success in the educational system correlates highly with class

noun

Each of two or more related or complementary things.

Usage examples:

Strategies to promote health should pay greater attention to financial hardship and other correlate…

verb

If two things correlate, or are correlated, they are connected, and affect each other

Usage examples:

Correlate to sth at this point, the advertising hasn't correlated to an increase in sales., correla…

verb

Have a close similarity; match or agree almost exactly.

Usage examples:

The carved heads described in the poem correspond to a drawing of edgcote house

verb

To be similar or the same in some way

Usage examples:

Her version of that meeting does not correspond with what i remember (= i remember it differently).…

verb

To communicate with someone by letter or email

Usage examples:

Correspond with sb there has been some problem in the way insurers are corresponding with customers…

verb

Consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another.

Usage examples:

Customers equate their name with quality

phrasal verb

Break down, literally or metaphorically

phrasal verb

If a roof or ceiling falls in, it drops to the ground because it is damaged

Usage examples:

Ten miners were trapped underground when the roof of the tunnel fell in., "company, fall in!" shout…

adjective

Of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose.

Usage examples:

The house was not fit for human habitation

verb

Be of the right shape and size for.

Usage examples:

Those jeans still fit me

noun

The particular way in which something, especially a garment or component, fits.

Usage examples:

The dress was a perfect fit

phrasal verb

To regularly exist at the same time, or often be found in the same place

Usage examples:

Movies and popcorn just seem to go together., his suit, shirt, and tie didn't really go together.

verb

Add notes to (a melody) to produce harmony.

Usage examples:

We harmonize a scale using only the notes from that particular key

verb

To add a harmony to a tune

Usage examples:

[ i ] i can sing a tune, but i find it hard to harmonize., [ t ] we need to harmonize the different…

verb

To make systems or laws the same or similar in different companies, countries, etc. so that they can work together more easily

Usage examples:

Initiatives to harmonize world tax systems have been met with much resistance., flexible working ar…

verb

(of two or more things) engage with each other by overlapping or by the fitting together of projections and recesses.

Usage examples:

Their fingers interlocked

noun

A device or mechanism for connecting or coordinating the function of different components.

Usage examples:

A safety interlock to stop the blades spinning

verb

To join together firmly, esp. by fitting one part into another

Usage examples:

Interlocking rings

noun

An insulting or mocking remark; a taunt.

Usage examples:

A jibe at his old rivals

verb

Make insulting or mocking remarks; jeer.

Usage examples:

Some cynics in the media might jibe

verb

Be in accord; agree.

Usage examples:

The verdict does not jibe with the medical evidence

verb

Link; connect.

Usage examples:

The tap was joined to a pipe

noun

A place or line where two or more things are connected or fastened together.

Usage examples:

It was soldered so well that you couldn't see the join

noun

A point at which parts of an artificial structure are joined.

Usage examples:

Seal the joint between the roof and the house wall

adjective

Shared, held, or made by two or more people together.

Usage examples:

A joint statement

verb

Provide or fasten (something) with joints.

Usage examples:

Other dolls, lily and jane, made in germany, had jointed arms and legs, eyelashes, eyes that opened…

noun

A relationship between two things or situations, especially where one affects the other.

Usage examples:

A commission to investigate a link between pollution and forest decline

verb

Make, form, or suggest a connection with or between.

Usage examples:

Rumours that linked his name with judith

noun

A torch of pitch and tow for lighting the way in dark streets.

noun

A contest in which people or teams compete against each other in a particular sport.

Usage examples:

A boxing match

verb

Correspond or cause to correspond in some essential respect; make or be harmonious.

Usage examples:

I thought we'd have primrose walls to match the bath

noun

A short, thin piece of wood or cardboard used to light a fire, being tipped with a composition that ignites when rubbed against a rough surface.

Usage examples:

He struck a match against the wall

noun

A hole or recess cut into a part which is designed to receive a corresponding projection (a tenon) on another part so as to join or lock the parts together.

Usage examples:

A mortise and tenon joint

verb

Join securely by using a mortise and tenon.

Usage examples:

The top plate of the rudder assembly can be mortised to the top of the rudder post

noun

(in the skull of a bird or reptile) a squarish bone with which the jaw articulates, thought to be homologous with the incus of the middle ear in mammals.

Usage examples:

Most significantly, however, the prootic articulates with the quadrate.

adjective

Roughly square or rectangular.

Usage examples:

A broad shell with a quadrate outline

verb

Another term for quadratus.

verb

Join or connect (a rope or ropes) by interweaving the strands at the ends.

Usage examples:

We learned how to weave and splice ropes

noun

A join consisting of two ropes, pieces of tape or timber, etc. joined together at the ends.

Usage examples:

So smooth is the splice that you can't see the join

verb

Join the ends of

noun

A plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles.

Usage examples:

A grid of ruled squares

adjective

Having the shape or approximate shape of a square.

Usage examples:

A square table

adverb

Directly; straight.

Usage examples:

The ball hit me square in the forehead

noun

A current score or amount.

Usage examples:

That takes his tally to 10 goals in 10 games

verb

Agree or correspond.

Usage examples:

Their signatures should tally with their names on the register

noun

A record or count of a number of items

Usage examples:

The final tally was 21 for and 16 against., [ t ] i need to finish tallying the receipts., [ i ] hi…

noun

A projecting piece of wood made for insertion into a mortise in another piece.

Usage examples:

A mortise and tenon joint

verb

Join by means of a tenon.

Usage examples:

The rail was tenoned into oak stiles

noun

The end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise (= an opening) in another piece of wood to form a joint