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5-letter words (8 found)

APERT,APTER,PATER,PEART,PETAR,PRATE,TAPER,TRAPE,

4-letter words (19 found)

APER,ARET,PARE,PART,PATE,PEAR,PEAT,PERT,PRAT,RAPE,RAPT,RATE,REAP,TAPE,TARE,TARP,TEAR,TEPA,TRAP,

3-letter words (23 found)

APE,APT,ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ETA,PAR,PAT,PEA,PER,PET,PRE,RAP,RAT,REP,RET,TAE,TAP,TAR,TEA,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AR,AT,EA,ER,ET,PA,PE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 62 words from taper according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of taper

taper

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈteɪpə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈteɪpɚ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: tapir

Etymology 1

From Middle English taper, from Old English 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. 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.

Noun

taper (plural tapers)

  2. A slender wax candle.
  3. (by extension) A small light.
  4. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
    Hyponym: conicality
  5. The portion of an object with such a form.
  6. A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
  7. A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
  8. Gradual reduction over time.
    a drug taper
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

taper (third-person singular simple present tapers, present participle tapering, simple past and past participle tapered)

  1. (transitive) To make thinner or narrower at one end.
  2. (intransitive) To become thinner or narrower at one end.
  3. (ambitransitive) To diminish gradually.
  4. (intransitive) (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
Synonyms
  • narrow
Derived terms
  • taper off
Descendants
  • → Swedish: tapera
Translations

Adjective

taper

  1. Tapered; narrowing to a point.

Etymology 2

From tape +‎ -er.

Noun

taper (plural tapers)

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

Anagrams

  • Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, trape, treap

Danish

Verb

taper

  1. present of tape

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French taper, from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *tappōn, *dabbōn (“to strike”) or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen (“to tap, rap, strike”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to beat, strike, stun, be speechless”). Related to German tappen (“to grope, fumble”), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”). Related to dab.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.pe/
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Homophones: tapai, tapé, tapée, tapées, tapés, tapez

Verb

taper

  1. (transitive) to slap, knock, beat
  2. (transitive) to type (use a keyboard or typewriter)
  3. (intransitive) to hit, to beat, to rap [with sur]
  4. (intransitive) to beat down (of the sun); to go to one's head (of wine etc.)
  5. (intransitive, slang) to stink, pong, reek
  6. (reflexive, slang) to put away (a meal etc.)
  7. (reflexive, vulgar, slang) to fuck (have sex)
  8. (reflexive) to put up with

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also

  • frapper
  • cogner

Further reading

  • “taper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  • “taper” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.

Anagrams

  • parte, pâtre, prêta, tarpé

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English taper, from Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈtapər/ [ˈt̪a.pər]
  • Rhymes: -apər
  • Syllabification: ta‧per

Noun

tapêr (plural taper-taper)

  1. (road transport) taper, a tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object
  2. (pharmacology) taper; gradual reduction over time
    Synonym: pengurangan

Further reading

  • “taper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • tapre, tapyr, tapir, tapor, tapour, tapur, tapper

Etymology

From Old English tapor, possibly from Latin papȳrus (if so, a doublet of papirus).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaːpər/

Noun

taper (plural tapres)

  1. taper (thin candle)

Descendants

  • English: taper

References

  • “tāper, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Pronunciation

Verb

taper (gerund tap'thie)

  1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to hit, knock

Derived terms

  • taper raide (“to hit hard”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From tape (“to lose”) +‎ -er.

Noun

taper m (definite singular taperen, indefinite plural tapere, definite plural taperne)

  1. a loser
Related terms
  • tapar (Nynorsk)

Verb

taper

  1. present tense of tape (“to lose”)

Etymology 2

Noun

taper m

  1. indefinite plural of tape

Verb

taper

  1. present tense of tape (“to tape”)

References

  • “taper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “taper” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

  • paret, parte, pater, patre, Petra, prate, rapet, rapte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

taper

  1. present of tape (to lose)

Walloon

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.pe/

Verb

taper

  1. to throw

Source: wiktionary.org