taperとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpɚ/
• 韻: -eɪpə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tapir

語源 1

From Middle English taper, from 古期英語 tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papyrus (“papyrus", used in Mediaeval times to mean "wick of a candle”). If so, it is a doublet of papyrus and paper. Alternatively, of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”); further compare Sanskrit तपती (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat, is hot; (it) heats”). More at tepid.

名詞

taper (複数形 tapers)

1. A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle
   • ~1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, scene I, line 157:

     strike on the tinder, ho!/ Give me a taper.

   • 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Change

     Love used to carry a bow, you know,

     But now he carries a taper;

     It is either a length of wax aglow,

     Or a twist of lighted paper.

2. (by extension) a small light.
3. 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.

   • 2005, Michael Ellis, Apollo Rises (page 15)

     Her hair hangs over her ears and flows to a taper at the back of her neck where it is held in place with a wide and circular black clasp.

4. A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.

派生語

• taperwise

動詞

taper (三人称単数 現在形 tapers, 現在分詞 tapering, 過去形および過去分詞形 tapered)

1. (transitive) To make thinner or narrower at one end.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     Though true cylinders without — within, the villainous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.

2. (intransitive) To diminish gradually.
3. (intransitive) (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.

同意語

• narrow

派生語

• taper off

形容詞

taper

1. Tapered; narrowing to a point.

語源 2

tape +‎ -er

名詞

taper (複数形 tapers)

1. (weaving) One who operates a tape machine.
2. Someone who works with tape or tapes.

アナグラム

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