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"ref": "1694, John Narborough, Jasmen Tasman [i.e., Abel Tasman], John Wood, Frederick Marten [i.e., Friedrich Martens], “[The Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland] Of the Crustaceous Fish that I Observed”, in [probably Tancred Robinson], editor, An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries to the South and North. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, 4th part, section V (Of the Star-fish), pages 118–119",
"text": "Beſides this, another fine Starfiſh came to my Hands, […] Its body hath ten corners, and it hath a Star above vvith as many Rays; each of theſe one may compare unto a Sail of the VVindmills that the Children run againſt the VVind vvithal, or to a piece of ſuch Croſſes that are broad before, and narrovv vvhere they meet together; that is to ſay, of the ſhape of a Dove-tail: […]",
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"The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the shape of a dove's tail."
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"_dis1": "55 16 27 2",
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"sense": "tail of a dove; something having the shape of a dove’s tail",
"word": "kyyhkyn pyrstö"
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"feminine"
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"ref": "1900, “Brazing Keys”, in Paul N[ooncree] Hasluck, editor, Cassell’s Cyclopædia of Mechanics […] (First Series), London, Paris: Cassell and Company, […], →OCLC, page 311, column 1",
"text": "With a warding file cut a dovetail on each of the ends to be joined, as shown by Fig. 1.",
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"ref": "[1921], [William Fairham], “The Dovetail Joint”, in Woodwork Joints: How They are Set Out, How Made and Where Used; […], Philadelphia, Pa., London: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 123",
"text": "After marking out the pins on the drawer sides, we proceed with the next operation, that is, sawing the dovetails ready for chopping out the waste material.",
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"ref": "1944 April, Edwin M. Love, “Handmade Dovetails”, in Charles McLendon, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 144, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 151, column 1",
"text": "DOVETAIL joints, well known for their strength, have long been used in fine cabinet work. Nowadays they are frequently displaced by other types of joints that are easier to make with power tools, but where a self-locking joint is needed for use without glue, the dovetail is unsurpassed.",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "تَعْشِيقَة"
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"feminine"
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"word": "cudornella"
},
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"roman": "yànwěisǔn",
"sense": "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",
"word": "燕尾榫"
},
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"sense": "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",
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{
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "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",
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"masculine"
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "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",
"word": "kalasabatapp"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "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",
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"feminine"
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"roman": "maḳraṭela",
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"word": "მაკრატელა"
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"feminine"
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"masculine"
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"code": "he",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "זְנַבְיוֹן"
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "déad"
},
{
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"masculine"
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "caletta"
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"alt": "ありつぎ",
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "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",
"word": "蟻継ぎ"
},
{
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sagae",
"sense": "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",
"word": "사개"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "lv",
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"sense": "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",
"word": "bezdelīgas astes savienojums"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "letenėlė"
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"roman": "lastóvečka ópaška",
"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ласто́вечка о́пашка"
},
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"sense": "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",
"word": "svalehale"
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"sense": "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",
"word": "svalehalesink"
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"sense": "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",
"word": "svalehaleskjøt"
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"code": "oc",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "coa d'aronda"
},
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "ota",
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"roman": "kurt ağızı",
"sense": "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",
"word": "قورت آغزی"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "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",
"word": "اتصال دمچلچلهای"
},
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"word": "jaskółczy ogon"
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"sense": "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",
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"word": "złącze płetwowe"
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{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "cauda de andorinha"
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{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ensambladura em cauda de andorinha"
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
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"word": "união em cauda de andorinha"
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"roman": "lástočkin xvóst",
"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ла́сточкин хво́ст"
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "gd",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "amaladh"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "cola de milano"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "cola de pato"
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
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"word": "laxstjärt"
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{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"sense": "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",
"word": "laxknut"
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{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "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",
"word": "bakám"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "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",
"word": "kurtağzı"
},
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"roman": "pastivčyn xvist",
"sense": "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",
"word": "пастівчин хвіст"
},
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"_dis1": "13 62 20 5",
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"sense": "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",
"tags": [
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"word": "uniad cynffonnog"
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"_dis1": "11 19 58 12",
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"sense": "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",
"word": "lohenpyrstövaarna"
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"ref": "1722, Alexander Nisbet, “Of the Points and Parts of the Shield; and Forms of Lines, which Divide the Shield into Several Parts”, in A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical: […], Edinburgh: […] J. MackEuen, →OCLC, page 23",
"text": "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: […]",
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"text": "ASSEMBLEE, [in Heraldry,] a Dovetail or more to hold the tvvo Parts of the Eſcutcheon together, vvhere the Partition Line is, being countercharged, is ſome of the Metal and ſome of the Colour of the Eſcutcheon.",
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"ref": "1900, Walter William Skeat, “Man and His Place in the Universe”, in Malay Magic: Being an Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of the Malay Peninsula, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, footnote 1, page 33",
"text": "In house-building it is further forbidden [by Sultan Muhammed Shah] to dovetail or make the ends of the timbers (e.g. of the roof) fit accurately together, and also to build two verandahs, one on each side of the house, with their floors on a level with the floor of the main building; if two verandahs are used, the floor of one must be lower than that of the main building (kelek anak).",
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"ref": "1943 March–April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in The Railway Magazine, Sutton, London: IPC Transport Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95",
"text": "Close contacts are also maintained between the chief operating officers of the railways and the movement and transport officers of the Service departments to dovetail railway transport into the schemes of the fighting forces.",
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"ref": "1988, Kenji Hakuta, “Why Bilinguals?”, in Frank S. Kessel, editor, The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Essays in Honor of Roger Brown, Hillsdale, N.J., Hove, East Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 299",
"text": "I felt that through the combined study of psychology and linguistics I would find out how children learned language, and that I would be able to dovetail this knowledge into my business career in Japan.",
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"ref": "2002, Nader H. Bshouty, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Christino Tamon, “Exploring Learnability between Exact and PAC”, in Jyrki Kivinen, Robert H. Sloan, editors, Computational Learning Theory: 15th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, COLT 2002, Sydney, Australia, July 8–10, 2002: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNAI); 2375; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISSN, page 248",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line Upgrade Presses On”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60",
"text": "The task now facing Mr Crook and his team in the multi-disciplinary programme is sequencing the works going forward, to ensure track, signalling, station works and overhead line installations dovetail together.",
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕaššaqa",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "عَشَّقَ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "sinkata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "tehdä lohenpyrstöliitos"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "assembler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "imbriquer"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "acantilar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "durch einen Schwalbenschwanz verbinden"
},
{
"alt": "ありつぎする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "aritsugi suru",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "蟻継ぎする"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "ajustar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "apariar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "embessonar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "encastrar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "imbricar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "jonchar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "juntar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to unite (components) with a dovetail or similar joint",
"word": "machihembrar"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "insajama maʕa",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "اِنْسَجَمَ مَعَ"
},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "rakkaba",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "رَكَّبَ"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tarābaṭa bayna",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "تَرَابَطَ بَيْنَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tawāfaqa maʕa",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "تَوَافَقَ مَعَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tawāṣala maʕa",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "تَوَاصَلَ مَعَ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "sovittaa (hyvin yhteen)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "coïncider"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "concorder"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "s’imbriquer"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "aufeinander abgestimmt sein"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "aufeinander verzahnt sein"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "einpassen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "haargenau zu passen (etwas)"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "sich nahtlos zusammenfügen"
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "saskaņot"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "usóglasi",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "усо́гласи"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "spói",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "спо́и"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se sóvpaǵa",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "се со́впаѓа"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "coïncidir"
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{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "concordar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "s'acordar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "s'apariar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soglasóvyvatʹsja",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "согласо́вываться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sootvétstvovatʹ",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "соотве́тствовать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prigonjátʹ",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пригоня́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prignátʹ",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "пригна́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "encajar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "machihembrar"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "cydblethu"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "plethu"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to combine or fit (things) together well",
"word": "asio"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously",
"word": "lomittaa ajoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously",
"word": "limittää ajoa"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously",
"word": "cydblethu"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "of several things: to combine or fit together well",
"word": "嚴絲合縫"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yánsīhéfèng",
"sense": "of several things: to combine or fit together well",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "严丝合缝"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of several things: to combine or fit together well",
"word": "sopia yhteen (hyvin)"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "of several things: to combine or fit together well",
"word": "cydblethu"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "of several things: to combine or fit together well",
"word": "ymblethu"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "of several things: to combine or fit together well",
"word": "ymdoddi"
}
],
"word": "dovetail"
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