TAPER
\tˈe͡ɪpə], \tˈeɪpə], \t_ˈeɪ_p_ə]\
Definitions of TAPER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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give a point to; "The candles are tapered"
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the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
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a convex shape that narrows toward a point
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diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"
By Princeton University
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give a point to; "The candles are tapered"
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the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
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a convex shape that narrows toward a point
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diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
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Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
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To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
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To make or cause to taper.
By Oddity Software
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A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
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Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
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To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
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To make or cause to taper.
By Noah Webster.
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A small wax candle; a small light; a gradual lessening of thickness toward a point; as, the taper of a cone.
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Growing smaller towards the point.
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To become gradually more slender.
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To narrow to a point.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A small wax-candle or light.
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Narrowed towards the point, like a taper: long and slender.
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To become gradually smaller towards one end.
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To make to taper.
By Daniel Lyons
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Narrowed toward the point; slender.
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Small wax candle, or light.
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To make, or become, smaller toward one end.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To make or become smaller toward the end; lessen gradually.
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Growing small by degrees toward the end.
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A small candle.
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A gradual lessening.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Long and becoming gradually slenderer towards one end.
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A small wax-candle; a small lighted wax-candle or a small light.
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To make gradually smaller in diameter.
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To become gradually slenderer towards one end.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
