taper
Tapered; narrowing to a pointTapered; narrowing to a point.
» He tapered off to one cigarette a day.
Er reduzierte sich auf eine Zigarette pro Tag. — tokyomews
Он снизил потребление до одной сигареты в день. — Hellerick
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesTapered; narrowing to a point.
Examples
10 sentencesHe tapered off to one cigarette a day.
ruОн снизил потребление до одной сигареты в день. — Hellerick
deEr reduzierte sich auf eine Zigarette pro Tag. — tokyomews
Mary has delicate pale tapering hands.
He needed to taper off venlafaxine.
deEr musste Venlafaxin allmählich absetzen. — Yorwba · CC BY 2.0 FR
I want it tapered in the back.
A single taper lit the entire room.
Origin
From Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of unFrom Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papyrus (“papyrus", used in Mediaeval times to mean "wick of a candle”); If so, it is a doublet of papyrus; but compare Old French taper (“taper, slender candle or light”). Alternatively, of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”); further compare Sanskrit तपती (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat, is hot; (it) heats”). More at tepid. First attested before the 12th c.
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