Dictionary Entry
taper
taper is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
- 2noun
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
- 3adjective
Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
- 4intransitive verb
To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
- 5transitive verb
To make or cause to taper.
- 6noun
stick of wax with a wick in the middle
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- 7noun
a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
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- 8noun
the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
- 9noun
a convex shape that narrows toward a point
- 10verb
diminish gradually
"Interested tapered off"
- 11verb
give a point to
"The candles are tapered"
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