"dovetail" meaning in 英語

See dovetail in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈdʌvteɪl/, /ˈdʌvˌteɪl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dovetail.wav Forms: dovetails [plural]
Etymology: 鴿子尾巴 榫頭 類似燕尾榫的線 名詞衍生自dove + tail。動詞衍生自名詞。
  1. 鴿子尾巴
    Sense id: zh-dovetail-en-noun-5h5jdncu Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語引文翻譯請求
  2. 燕尾榫
    Sense id: zh-dovetail-en-noun-UOSSTIaZ Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語 木工, 英語引文翻譯請求
  3. 類似鴿子尾巴的楔形榫頭
    Sense id: zh-dovetail-en-noun-ibYzidCN Categories (other): 英語 木工
  4. 類似燕尾榫的線
    Sense id: zh-dovetail-en-noun-ITm4kc2z Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語 紋章學, 英語引文翻譯請求 Topics: heraldry
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dove-tail, dufftail Synonyms (燕尾榫): culvertail, fantail, swallowtail

Verb

IPA: /ˈdʌvteɪl/, /ˈdʌvˌteɪl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dovetail.wav Forms: dovetails, dovetailing, dovetailed
Etymology: 鴿子尾巴 榫頭 類似燕尾榫的線 名詞衍生自dove + tail。動詞衍生自名詞。
  1. 用燕尾榫連接起來 Tags: transitive
    Sense id: zh-dovetail-en-verb-dJttH1gU Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語 木工, 英語及物動詞, 英語引文翻譯請求
  2. 使吻合 Tags: figuratively, transitive
  3. 將算法或子程序交織,使其能夠同時運作 Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: zh-dovetail-en-verb-mLoYFNmg Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語 計算機, 英語及物動詞, 英語引文翻譯請求 Topics: computing
  4. 嚴絲合縫 Tags: figuratively, intransitive
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dove-tail Derived forms: dovetailed, dovetailing, dovetailer
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          "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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          "text": "The executive board dovetailed its decision neatly with the prior projects the company had taken up."
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          "text": "Through my new project, I dovetail my interests in botany and programming."
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          "ref": "1943 March–April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, 出自 The Railway Magazine, Sutton, London: IPC Transport Press, →ISSN, →OCLC,頁號 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?”, 出自 Frank S. Kessel 編, The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Essays in Honor of Roger Brown, Hillsdale, N.J., Hove, East Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN,頁號 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": "1944 April, Edwin M. Love, “Handmade Dovetails”, 出自 Charles McLendon 編, The Popular Science Monthly, 卷 144, 號 4, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC,頁號 151,列號 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "燕尾榫"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "主要用於木工",
        "常作定語"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "英語 木工"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "類似鴿子尾巴的楔形榫頭"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "主要用於木工",
        "常作定語"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "有引文的英語詞",
        "英語 紋章學",
        "英語引文翻譯請求"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1722, Alexander Nisbet, “Of the Points and Parts of the Shield; and Forms of Lines, which Divide the Shield into Several Parts”, 出自 A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical: […], Edinburgh: […] J. MackEuen, →OCLC,頁號 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: […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1736, John Harris, “ASSEMBLEE”, 出自 Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: […], 5th版, 卷 I, London: […] J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC,列號 2:",
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "類似燕尾榫的線"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "heraldry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʌvteɪl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dovetail.wav",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʌvˌteɪl/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "燕尾榫",
      "word": "culvertail"
    },
    {
      "sense": "燕尾榫",
      "word": "fantail"
    },
    {
      "sense": "燕尾榫",
      "word": "swallowtail"
    },
    {
      "word": "dove-tail"
    },
    {
      "word": "dufftail"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dovetail"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "缺少作者和編輯參數的參考模板",
    "英語動詞",
    "英語複合詞",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dovetailed"
    },
    {
      "word": "dovetailing"
    },
    {
      "word": "dovetailer"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "鴿子尾巴\n榫頭\n類似燕尾榫的線\n名詞衍生自dove + tail。動詞衍生自名詞。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dovetails",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dovetailing",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dovetailed",
      "raw_tags": [
        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "有引文的英語詞",
        "英語 木工",
        "英語及物動詞",
        "英語引文翻譯請求"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Walter William Skeat, “Man and His Place in the Universe”, 出自 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,頁號 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)."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "用燕尾榫連接起來"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "主要用於木工"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "有使用例的英語詞",
        "有引文的英語詞",
        "英語使用例翻譯請求",
        "英語及物動詞",
        "英語引文翻譯請求"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The executive board dovetailed its decision neatly with the prior projects the company had taken up."
        },
        {
          "text": "Through my new project, I dovetail my interests in botany and programming."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943 March–April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, 出自 The Railway Magazine, Sutton, London: IPC Transport Press, →ISSN, →OCLC,頁號 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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Kenji Hakuta, “Why Bilinguals?”, 出自 Frank S. Kessel 編, The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Essays in Honor of Roger Brown, Hillsdale, N.J., Hove, East Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN,頁號 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "使吻合"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "有引文的英語詞",
        "英語 計算機",
        "英語及物動詞",
        "英語引文翻譯請求"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Nader H. Bshouty, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Christino Tamon, “Exploring Learnability between Exact and PAC”, 出自 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, →ISBN, →ISSN,頁號 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "將算法或子程序交織,使其能夠同時運作"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "有使用例的英語詞",
        "有引文的英語詞",
        "英語不及物動詞",
        "英語使用例翻譯請求",
        "英語引文翻譯請求"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The parts of your essay should dovetail so that it is cohesive and coherent."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line Upgrade Presses On”, 出自 Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC,頁號 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "嚴絲合縫"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʌvteɪl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dovetail.wav",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʌvˌteɪl/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dove-tail"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dovetail"
}

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