dovetailing's Usage Examples:

Darwin and his generation were deeply imbued with the Butlerian tradition, and regarded the organic world as almost a miracle of adaptation, of the minute dovetailing of structure, function and environment.

Drawers should pull out smoothly and dovetailing should be tight and secure.

dovetailing work, this involves several methods of accurate chisel use.

Recent discoveries have shown that representatives of the two floras coexisted in certain regions; there was, in fact, a dovetailing between strata in Europe.

The hiatus is striking, but it cannot be held to necessitate an editorial dovetailing of two separate epistles.

dovetailing effectively with only a second goal missing from their partnership.

Synonyms:

go, fit,

Antonyms:

linger, stay in place, precede,