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.