Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: /ˈteɪ.pɚ/
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈteɪ.pə/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
  2. (weaving) One who operates a tape machine.
  3. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object
  4. Someone who works with tape or tapes.
  5. A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To make thinner or narrower at one end.
  2. (intransitive) To diminish gradually.

Exempel

  • strike on the tinder, ho!/ Give me a taper.
  • Love used to carry a bow, you know,
  • But now he carries a taper;
  • It is either a length of wax aglow,
  • Or a twist of lighted paper.
  • the taper of a spire.
  • The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.
  • Though true cylinders without — within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticiptapered
Imperfekttapered
Presensparticiptapering
Pluraltapers
Tredje person singular indicativ presenstapers