tapering 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.
 
tapering 近义词
conical
narrowing
更多tapering例句
- The Federal Reserve decided the economy is strong enough to start tapering its bond purchases.
 - She would never have used the “T” word, “tapering,” because unemployment remains unconcionably high.
 - On CNBC Wednesday morning, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein called for the Fed to start tapering.
 - In June, Bernanke had said that the tapering could start only once gains in the labor market seemed persistent and safe.
 - The implication is that Summers sees less risk in rapid tapering.
 - Next from the large casket Mrs. Sin took another smaller casket and a very long, tapering silver bodkin.
 - Her hands were sinuous as serpents, the fingers tapering, the nails very long like the Chinese.
 - She bends over him, she draws forth a knife, slender, tapering to a point almost like a needle.
 - The caudal appendage of the juvenile and female is made up of three small joints tapering to a blunt end.
 - Cephalothorax suboval, upper margin strongly concave at the sides and tapering to a point at the median line.