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▸ noun:  The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the shape of a dove's tail.
▸ noun:  (chiefly woodworking, often attributively)
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (heraldry) A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1).
▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  (chiefly woodworking) To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun sense 2.1) or similar joint.
▸ verb:  (figuratively)
▸ verb:  To combine or fit (things) together well.
▸ verb:  (computing) To interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously.
▸ verb:  (music) To seamlessly move a melody from one instrument to another.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) Of several things: to combine or fit together well.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To adapt to something; to fit in.

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