0 a type of joint used to fix two pieces of wood firmly together --
2 to fit together well, or to cause something to fit together well with something else: --
The mor phological level is relatively, though not absolutely, consistent within itself, and it dovetails well with the phonological and syntactic levels in its preference for right-branching.
His emphasis on an active programme of counter-cyclical expenditure on goods, services and public works also dovetails with the national and collectivist solutions characteristic of the old welfare.
The passage in question is a rising whole-tone scale ingeniously dovetailed in luminous colours, leading to music for four marimbas and other percussion.
His 'reply' - which begins before her speech has finished, the two passages dovetailing seamlessly - fits his line remarkably closely to her musical profile.
Fraternity was dovetailed with obedience to administrative authority.
The scheme is neatly dovetailed into the established system of private practice.
The continuing evolution of pulse-power technology dovetails nicely with the needs of the z-pinch research community.
Such an expansion, however, dovetails a curious limitation in the scope of natural science.
