taper
/ˈteɪpɚ/ sustantivo C2En español: cirio, vela delgada, ahusamiento
- A slender wax candle.
- A small light.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object. · the taper of a spire· The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.
- The portion of an object with such a form. · ensuring the cleanliness of the taper of a machine tool spindle or of a tool shank
- A long wick or thin stick used for transferring flames to candles, now usually chemically-treated to burn particularly slowly.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Gradual reduction over time. · a drug taper
Plural tapers
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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A small taper on the edge of the table shed a feeble light which sufficed to show me that he was fully dressed.
From this he took a paper, and returning to his seat he flattened it out beside the taper on the edge of the table, and began to study it with minute attention.
The taper was still on the table, and by its light I glanced to see what the paper was which Brunton had taken from the bureau.
I grasped it in my hand, put out the flame as quickly as I could, lighted my taper in the fire itself, and opened the crumpled paper with inexpressible emotion, recognizing, when I had done so, that these characters had been traced in mysterious and sympathetic ink, only appearing when exposed to the fire; nearly one-third of the paper had been consumed by the flame.
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