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- [tey-per]
- /ˈteɪ pər/
- /ˈteɪ.pər/
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- [tey-per]
- /ˈteɪ pər/
Definitions of taper word
- verb without object taper to become smaller or thinner toward one end. 1
- verb without object taper to grow gradually lean. 1
- verb with object taper to make gradually smaller toward one end. 1
- verb with object taper to reduce gradually. 1
- noun taper a person who records or edits magnetic tape, videotape, etc. 1
- intransitive verb taper gradually narrow 1
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Origin of taper
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English: wax candle, Old English, variant of tapur, dissimilated variant of *papur paper
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Taper
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
taper popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 89% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
taper usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for taper
verb taper
- abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
- acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
- aways — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- bant — string
adj taper
noun taper
- bougie — a long slender semiflexible cylindrical instrument for inserting into body passages, such as the rectum or urethra, to dilate structures, introduce medication, etc
- chock — a block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
- cotter — any part, such as a pin, wedge, key, etc, that is used to secure two other parts so that relative motion between them is prevented
- daytime — The daytime is the part of a day between the time when it gets light and the time when it gets dark.
- incandescence — the emission of visible light by a body, caused by its high temperature. Compare luminescence.
adjective taper
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- lanceolar — (botany) lanceolate.
- wedged — having the shape of a wedge.
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