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Verb
/ˈtāpər/,
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tapers, plural;
  1. Diminish or reduce or cause to diminish or reduce in thickness toward one end
    • - the tail tapers to a rounded tip
    • - David asked my dressmaker to taper his trousers
  2. Gradually lessen
    • - the impact of the dollar's depreciation started to taper off
Noun
  1. A slender candle

  2. A wick coated with wax, used for conveying a flame

  3. A gradual narrowing
    • - the current industry standard taper of 5 degrees
  1. a convex shape that narrows toward a point
  2. diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"
  3. sharpen: give a point to; "The candles are tapered"
  4. wick: a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
  5. candle: stick of wax with a wick in the middle
  6. (tapering) tapered: becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs"
  7. A Taper is a person who records musical events often from standing microphones in the audience for the benefit of the musical group's fanbase. Such taping was popularized in the late 1960s and early 1970s by fans of the Grateful Dead. ...
  8. In cymbal making, taper refers to the gradual change in thickness from the bell to the rim of the cymbal. It is one of the key features that determines the tone of the cymbal.
  9. Tapering, in the context of sports, refers to the practice of reducing, or tapering off, exercise in the days just before an important competition. Tapering is customary in many endurance sports, such as the marathon, athletics and swimming. ...
  10. (Tapering (mathematics)) In mathematics, physics, and theoretical computer graphics, tapering is a kind of shape deformation. ...
  11. A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light; A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object; To make thinner or narrower at one end; To diminish gradually
  12. (Tapered) A shape that gradually becomes narrower or thinner toward one end.
  13. (Tapered) A descriptive term for a shape or cut that becomes progressively narrower or thinner at one end. Tapered pants, for example, draw the eye away from the waistline and down to the narrower part of the leg and the ankle, for a slimming effect.
  14. (Tapered) A pin having a larger diameter at one end than at the other, and a straight transition from one end to the other. Usually headless, but often threaded. Sometimes driven into an assembly to temporarily facilitate alignment of surfaces or holes.
  15. (Tapered) A silhouette that is narrow at one end and becomes gradually wider at the other.
  16. (Tapered) Any hole in which the upper diameter of the hole is larger than the bottom.
  17. (Tapered) Design characteristic of a shaft whose sides angle (taper) in at the tip end.
  18. (Tapered) In architecture the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain or decorated.
  19. (Tapered) Profile that matches the drape of mature breasts. Elongated wings that get thinner toward the edges. Tapered forms have a thinner profile than Full forms.
  20. (Tapered) When you want your hair to have a long, smooth transition from one length to another you’ll need to get ‘tapering’. A good taper will reveal no sudden shifts in length, and will have a smooth gradient throughout.
  21. (tapered) Defined as a shape that fades or becomes narrow.  Along the coast such embellishments became increasingly popular, and so her attire fell out of fashion.
  22. (tapered) Gradually (not abruptly) narrower or smaller at base or tip. (see truncate)
  23. as in “Tapered dowel balusters”, that is becomes narrower towards the bottom.
  24. (Tapering) A reduction in training intensity before a major competition to give the body and mind a break from the rigors of intensive training.
  25. (Tapering) A period of training that sees a reduction in volume but maintenance of frequency and intensity prior to a major competition.