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tapered

ta·per
T t

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [tey-per]
    • /ˈteɪ pər/
    • /ˈteɪ.pər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [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

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Synonyms 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

  • candled — Simple past tense and past participle of candle.
  • chocked — a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.

verb tapered

  • featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
  • minified — Simple past tense and past participle of minify.

Antonyms for tapered

adjective tapered

  • flared — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
  • widening — Of things that are growing wider.

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