Taper in a sentence as a noun

Then we took it to the school field and blew 10g of it up with a magnesium taper.

At the current rate of taper, QE purchases could reach zero by the end of the year.

If you are realitively healthy you can taper off.

And trust me, even going that slowly, tapering off of a benzo is no fun at all!

We can't taper addicts down using heroin, so we use methadone.

I have heard of peope getting off it, but they taper their dose, and have a fair amount if decipline.

This is nothing to sneeze at, of course, but chances are very high it will quickly taper off the way these bumps usually do.

Taper in a sentence as a verb

In practice I find the taper helps a lot for shoving into briefcases, sleeves, and holding it one-handed.

For one, it does not look like an Air--it does not taper to a point, which is something that annoys me in both the Asus and the Air.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

If you taper the tower with an exponential curve, 1/e^x, the pressure on the bottom of the tower can be constant as you increase the both the footprint and the height.

If you create a proper foundation with Lego bricks and distribute the weight evenly across them, and taper the tower as it goes up, am I wrong in assuming it could go a lot more than that?

As an opiate addict in recovery, and having experienced caffeine withdrawal: taper, taper, taper.

You can watch your conversion-rate-over-time for many offers, many designs, many products, etc, and they often start out quite high and taper off, both in circumstances where there is obvious alternate causality and in circumstances where they isn't.

Taper definitions

noun

a convex shape that narrows toward a point

noun

the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)

noun

a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

See also: wick

noun

stick of wax with a wick in the middle

See also: candle

verb

diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"

verb

give a point to; "The candles are tapered"

See also: sharpen point