Tapers Synonyms and Antonyms

The act or process of decreasing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. slashes
  2. drains
  3. decreases
  4. slowdowns
  5. reductions
  6. diminutions
  7. decrements
  8. cut
  9. curtailments
  10. abatements
Stick of wax with a wick in the middle
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. candles
A loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wicks

Tapers Sentence Examples

  • When it exists it is always slender, and tapers to a point anteriorly.

  • Southwards it tapers to 1 20 m.

  • The first larva is broad in front and tapers behind to a " tail " provided with two divergent processes, so that it resembles a small crustacean.

  • The clergy were bidden to exhort their hearers to the " works of charity, mercy and faith, specially prescribed and commanded in Scripture, and not to repose their trust or affiance in any other works devised by men's phantasies beside Scripture; as in wandering to pilgrimages, offering of money, candles or tapers to images or relics, or kissing or licking the same, saying over a number of beads, not understood or minded on, or in such-like superstition."

  • The most simple case is that in which the trapezette tapers out in such a way that the curve forming its top has very close contact, at its extremities, with the base; in other words, the differential coefficients u', u", u"',.

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