| 单词 | tapering-off |
| 释义 | > as lemmastapering-off The action of taper v. in various senses; concrete a thing or part that tapers. Also tapering-off.attributive, as tapering principle = taper principle n. at taper adj. Compounds 2; so tapering system, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > [noun] tapering1610 taperness1736 taper1793 snape1794 the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > [noun] > tapered object tapering1610 taper1882 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iii. 6 The boaling, spreading,..and tapering of trees. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 30 The screw-plate will after it gets a little below the tapering go no further, but work and wear off the thred again it made about the tapering. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 485 Those [cells]..must further show a conical tapering. 1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 186 It will take you months of steady tapering down. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. iv. 124 The question of ‘tapering-off’, in abandoning such habits as drink and opium-indulgence, comes in here. 1930 M. Clark Home Trade 70 Where it is necessary to transfer the goods in transit from one railway to another, the tapering principle is not interfered with. 1955 A. Koestler Trail of Dinosaur 136 The Jews alone among the varied European immigrant population have resisted this ‘tapering off’ process. < as lemmas |
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