noun. A small or very slender candle.

noun. A long wax-coated wick used to light candles or gas lamps.

noun. A source of feeble light.

noun. undefined

noun. A gradual decrease in thickness or width of an elongated object.

noun. A gradual decrease, as in action or force.

intransitive verb. To become gradually narrower or thinner toward one end.

intransitive verb. To diminish or lessen gradually. Often used with off.

intransitive verb. To make thinner or narrower at one end.

intransitive verb. To make smaller gradually.

adjective. Gradually decreasing in size toward a point.

Long and becoming slenderer toward the point; becoming small toward one end.

Diminished; reduced.

noun. Tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; that which possesses a tapering form: as, the taper of a spire.

To become taper; become gradually slenderer; grow less in diameter; diminish in one direction.

To diminish; grow gradually less.

To spring up in or as in a tall, tapering form.

To stop slowly or by degrees; cease gradually.

To cause to taper; make gradually smaller, especially in diameter; cause to diminish toward a point.

noun. A candle, especially a very slender candle; any device for giving light by the agency of a wick coated with combustible matter.

noun. A gradual decrease of power or capacity.

intransitive verb. To become gradually smaller toward one end.

adjective. Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical.

noun. A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.

noun. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object.

transitive verb. To make or cause to taper.

noun. A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.

noun. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object

verb. To make thinner or narrower at one end.

verb. To diminish gradually.

noun. One who operates a tape machine.

noun. Someone who works with tape or tapes.

verb. diminish gradually

noun. a convex shape that narrows toward a point

noun. stick of wax with a wick in the middle

noun. a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

noun. the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)

verb. give a point to

"“This one,” he says, reaching into a plastic bin that at elBulli is called a taper an abbreviation and approximate phonetic rendering of Tupperware, “has nothing to do with this one.”"

tapered rope  to taper off  

taper off  tapered  tapering  taperwise  

convex shape  convexity  decrease  diminish  fall  

Draper  caper  draper  graper  paper  

angular  candle  curve  cylindrical  fleshy  

abate  aculeate  acuminate  approach  barb  

tapered  tapering  tapers