taper 的 4 个定义
- to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- to grow gradually lean.
- to make gradually smaller toward one end.
- to reduce gradually.
- gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- gradual decrease of force, capacity, etc.
- anything having a tapering form, as a spire or obelisk.
- (5)
- taper off, to become gradually more slender toward one end.to cease by degrees; decrease; diminish: The storm is beginning to taper off now. I haven't stopped smoking entirely, but I'm tapering off to three cigarettes a day.
taper 近义词
decrease
更多taper例句
- However, the publication is already seeing some of that taper off.
- One of the most vexing problems for athletes is figuring out how to time their heat adaptation prior to a competition, without messing up their taper, their travel plans, and perhaps their final stint of altitude training.
- This microphone is fine-tuned to capture spoken word and voice at a production-level standard, and it exhibits a high presence bump in the upper midrange with a gradual downward taper until its response drops significantly at the low end.
- The Federal Reserve surprised the market Wednesday with new hints about its timeline for a rate liftoff — and an acknowledgment of taper talk.
- The sidecut, rocker profile, and taper do much of the work for you, allowing for a loose, playful ride off-piste and, yes, even a carved turn back on trail with just a slight roll of the ankle.
- After that time, it is my hope that things will taper off a bit.
- In January, the Fed will start to scale back—taper—its bond purchases, from $85 billion per month to $75 billion.
- Gabrielle Taper, 19, sat next to her two teenage friends and nibbled on crawfish and Andouille, a type of sausage made from pork.
- Markets would have to defend against the possibility of a strong report reigniting October taper expectations.
- This is the dreaded “taper” that has lately given stock markets nausea.
- She blushed and declined, and, with the refusal on her very lips, fished it out with her taper fingers.
- Then the porter lifted a taper, and, followed by the young lad, began to make the tour of the church.
- I suppose it to have been large, for, with the help of the feeble taper, I could scarcely distinguish the walls.
- I then desired my young companions to follow, and giving one taper with little ceremony to the abbess, said to her, 'Forward!'
- One by one the delicate candle flames sprang from the taper and a soft light illumined the pale rich chamber.