tapers in English

noun
1
a slender candle.
Many people may feel that formal candles, such as tapers , are commonplace necessities for a sophisticated dinner party.
verb
1
diminish or reduce or cause to diminish or reduce in thickness toward one end.
the tail tapers to a rounded tip
synonyms:narrowthin (out)come to a pointattenuate

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1. Acuminate: leaf that tapers into a long point

2. Apex Acuminate, tapers from mid-leaf to apex

3. Acuminate: leaf that tapers into a long point.

4. His wide chest tapers to a small waist.

5. 1 His wide chest tapers to a small waist.

6. One end of the stick tapers down to a point.

7. Blog: Rain Tapers Off, Cloudier & Breezy by Monday Weather Blog

8. Adorning each silver bowl was a silver candlestick with white tapers

9. These Bamboo culms may be sturdier and their width tapers off with height.

10. It comes in with its richest, Boldest flavor immediately and then quickly tapers off

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12. Beeswax candles in pillars, tapers, votives, tea lights, honeycomb, aromatherapy, gift baskets, and candle accessories

13. A Cinched waist is a feature in a garment that tapers narrowly at the mid-section, accentuating the curves of the body

14. The expanding mandrel (5) comprises a shank (11) with an outer thread (12) and an expanding head (13) which tapers conically towards the shank (11).

15. Leaves that have a long and thin tip are said to be caudate, while leaves in which the tip tapers gradually to a point are called Cuspidate

16. The baffle barrier (28) can be adjusted relative to the inlet aperture (17) in the longitudinal direction and has a cross-section which tapers towards the second worm-conveyor zone (19).

17. A Boojum's stiff, woody trunk tapers from a fat base to a narrow tip; some people like to compare its shape to an upside-down carrot

18. The use of these periodic tapers allows achieving remarkable dispersion properties such as zero group velocity in the fundamental modes, negative group refraction index, Birefraction, Dirac-like cones, and mode anisotropy.

19. This is for example obtained in that each wiping element has a polygonal, preferably rectangular cross section at its end adjacent the bottom and tapers from the bottom.

20. 15 Before the truth finally comes out, the titular wives manage to bury Falstaff in filthy laundry and costume local children as fairies to "pinch him sound and burn him with their tapers.

21. The best dustpan to pair with the Casabella Broom is the OXO Good Grips Clip-On Dustpan.Its unique red rubber lip tapers to a fine edge and curves up the sides of the dustpan, making …

22. As compared to periodic ones, Aperiodic reflectarrays can reach a wide variety of equivalent amplitude tapers [22-27] and higher performance [24, 25-27] thanks to the larger number of involved degrees of freedom (including the positions of all the reflectarray elements)