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- [tey-per]
- /ˈteɪ pər/
- /ˈteɪ.pər/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tey-per]
- /ˈteɪ pər/
Definitions of tapered word
- verb without object tapered to become smaller or thinner toward one end. 1
- verb without object tapered to grow gradually lean. 1
- verb with object tapered to make gradually smaller toward one end. 1
- verb with object tapered to reduce gradually. 1
- noun tapered gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object. 1
- noun tapered gradual decrease of force, capacity, etc. 1
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Origin of tapered
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 Tapered
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tapered 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".
tapered usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tapered
adj tapered
- acuate — to sharpen
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- calibrated — marked with units
- coned — Geometry. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
adjective tapered
- attenuated — An attenuated object is unusually long and thin.
- conoidal — Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
- decreased — Simple past tense and past participle of decrease.
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
noun tapered
verb tapered
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
- minified — Simple past tense and past participle of minify.
Antonyms for tapered
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