taper
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- noun
- /ˈteɪpər/
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estrechamiento
- The candle's taper allowed it to fit securely into the holder without wobbling.
- limb taper
- taper bushing
- residual limb taper
Trees leaf while mountains shimmer, an architecture of bumpy triangulation pulling their weight up to a taper.
- Trees leaf while mountains shimmer, an architecture of bumpy triangulation pulling their weight up to a taper.
Examples
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It's really fluffy and thick, but it has a slight taper so that you can really get in those inner corners.
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The social worker arrived, the one with white hair in a tapering braid.
Fiction book (2000) -
So as you can see, this has this gorgeous taper to the centre of it.
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Give it a nice taper through the shoulders and the back.
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But yeah, it's giving me a nice little taper, and the shape of the wand is quite nice as well.
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The area we were working in is small; the bow is 28 feet long and tapers inside from 10 to two feet.
Academic text (2011) -
It blends in ever everything so seamlessly because it has a little taper and a fluffy perimeter.
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Each profiled cross-section is thick, but tapers at the end to maybe half a millimeter.
Academic text (2007) -
Moonlight fractures on the ocean's light chop, glistens mercurial on the whale's tapering bobbing body.
Fiction book (1994) -
The vase has a beautiful taper that narrows elegantly towards the top.
Synonyms
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A shape with a round base that narrows to a single point at the top like an ice cream cone
Gradually getting narrower toward one end
Becoming gradually narrower toward one end
Compounds
- Specialized
A hand tool with edges that narrow to a point for shaping and smoothing metal or wood
How Narrow
Surface Forms
Etymology
Taper means a shape that becomes narrower toward one end. Think of a thin candle that ends in a point; that image makes it easy to remember why we call a leaf or tower a 'taper'.