Taper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small or very slender candle.
  • n. A long wax-coated wick used to light candles or gas lamps.
  • n. A source of feeble light.
  • n. A gradual decrease in thickness or width of an elongated object.
  • n. A gradual decrease, as in action or force.
  • verb-intransitive. To become gradually narrower or thinner toward one end.
  • verb-intransitive. To diminish or lessen gradually. Often used with off: The storm finally tapered off.
  • v. To make thinner or narrower at one end.
  • v. To make smaller gradually.
  • adj. Gradually decreasing in size toward a point.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
  • n. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object
  • v. To make thinner or narrower at one end.
  • v. To diminish gradually.
  • n. One who operates a tape machine.
  • n. Someone who works with tape or tapes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
  • n. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object.
  • adj. Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical.
  • verb-intransitive. To become gradually smaller toward one end.
  • v. To make or cause to taper.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A gradual decrease of power or capacity.
  • n. A candle, especially a very slender candle; any device for giving light by the agency of a wick coated with combustible matter.
  • Long and becoming slenderer toward the point; becoming small toward one end.
  • Diminished; reduced.
  • To become taper; become gradually slenderer; grow less in diameter; diminish in one direction.
  • To diminish; grow gradually less.
  • To spring up in or as in a tall, tapering form.
  • To stop slowly or by degrees; cease gradually.
  • To cause to taper; make gradually smaller, especially in diameter; cause to diminish toward a point.
  • n. Tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; that which possesses a tapering form: as, the taper of a spire.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. diminish gradually
  • n. a convex shape that narrows toward a point
  • n. stick of wax with a wick in the middle
  • n. a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
  • n. the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
  • v. give a point to
  • Verb Form
    tapered    tapering    tapers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    diminish    fall    lessen    decrease    convex shape    convexity   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    tapered    tapering    taperwise    taper off   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    conical    pyramidical    candle    lighter    diminution    tapering    diminish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Draper    caper    draper    graper    paper    raper    scraper    vapor   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stubby    cylindrical    swept-back    slender    candle    triangular    upper    horizontal    angular    lantern