(n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
(n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
(a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
(v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
(v. t.) To make or cause to taper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(2) The cases of S-type were changed to those of ST-type, which emphasized the Tapering type factors.
(3) The former possess a variety of spines, axonlike processes and sometimes an unmyelinated axon, and are presumably interneurons, while type IIB cells show a thick tapering axon that is probably myelinated.
(4) He presents measures for the management of withdrawal symptoms and relapse, focusing on the use of a slow taper over 3 to 6 months.
(5) In the experiments which covered exposure time from 4.5 to 17.0 s, we found that it started slowly, the reflectance increased rapidly once the surface temperature of the lesion reached approximately 90 degrees C. After this rapid rise, the reflectance began to taper off until no change in reflectance was recorded.
(6) During the 3-month tapering-off period eight initially improved patients (36%) in the cyclosporin group worsened, as did six (55%) in the placebo group.
(7) Special complications included postoperative renal deterioration, especially after tapering of megaureters.
(8) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
(9) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
(10) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(11) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
(12) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
(13) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
(14) The tapered tubes and constricted tubes are of special importance.
(15) It involves the deep white matter symmetrically, tapering off toward the cortex.
(16) Those on antihypertensive medication prior to enrollment without documented diastolic hypertension had their medication tapered and discontinued, and then met BP criteria (33% of cohort).
(17) It has not yet been possible to enumerate these tapered rods by culture methods, but as judged by visual appearances in the histological sections, they seemed to outnumber all other bacteria in the cecum and the colon by a factor of as much as 1000.
(18) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(19) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
(20) The micropyle canal measures 8 microns at the opening and tapers to 3.6 microns as it penetrates the membrane.
Tapper
Definition:
(n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In response to a question from the host, Jake Tapper, about allegations that the Russian ambassador “is a spy”, Rubio said: “It is not a mystery to anyone that virtually every embassy in Washington DC has some intelligence component associated with it.” Fact check: what did Trump's tweets about Obama's 'wiretaps' mean?
(2) Maria Osmarina da Silva was born in 1958 in a community of rubber tappers called Seringal Bagaço, deep in the western state of Acre, not far from the border with Bolivia.
(3) This article provides results of a comparison between the Halstead-Reitan tapper and a 1988 computerized tapping program by Loong.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
(5) By comparing the effects of moderate-intensity stimuli in experiments with and without a response criterion in isolated mantle preparations, we found that when a minimal response-amplitude criterion is imposed the CNS mediates 90--95% of the gill-withdrawal reflex, whether it is elicited by the "tapper" stimulus used by Peretz et al.
(6) Nominees: Zoe Tapper - Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, BBC Drama Serials for BBC4 Bruce Parry - Tribe, BBC Wales for BBC2 Arts Holocaust, a Music Memorial Film From Auschwitz, BBC co-production with CBC, ZDF, TVP & in association with Czech TV for BBC2 "This simple yet clever programme achieved its aims through a quiet appropriateness which made for an incredibly uplifting viewing experience."
(7) And, you know, there’s no basis to it.” The same day, CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper puts the Clinton campaign’s allegations to Donald Trump Jr .
(8) 10EdAM was superior to MTX against 4 of 6 murine ascites tumors (L1210, S180, Ehrlich and Tapper) and far superior against 4 of 6 solid murine tumors (S180, Tapper, E0771 mammary AC, T241 fibrosarcoma).
(9) We present a case of polycystic hydatid disease produced by Echinococcus vogeli in a tapper of rubber trees from the State of Acre, Brazil.
(10) Jay grounds out, a harmless tapper to Adrian Gonzalez as the Cards go 1-2-3 in their half of the second inning.
(11) In an interview with Jake Tapper on ABC News, he said he believed all states should have the right to ban birth control.
(12) That man’s conduct was deplorable,” Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told CNN after Tapper suggested the adjective.
(13) Hillary Clinton is projected to pass the delegate threshold she needs to capture the Democratic nomination and therefore, Tapper noted, declare victory.
(14) One task involved complex motor activity (the Bead and Tapper test) and the other simple motor activity with a verbal component (the Letter Cancellation test).
(15) Only patients with parkinsonism showed a significant increase in dual task interference on a bimanual bead and tapper task, compared with controls.
(16) Six out of 21 episodes with inactive disease after tappering off corticoid therapy had sIL-2R levels above the upper limit of the normal range.
(17) In an exchange that would have been all but unthinkable even four years ago, moderator Jake Tapper posed a question to Florida senator Marco Rubio and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie that quoted Reagan secretary of state George Schultz: “Why not take out our insurance policy and approach climate change the Reagan way?” But despite the token question well into the third hour of CNN’s GOP debate , no candidate was willing to endorse any possible solution.
(18) Stephen Drew hits a tapper to end the inning, but the Rays have three outs to score 10 runs here.
(19) Asked by CNN’s Tapper if Page is in contact with Russian government officials, Conway says: “If he’s doing that, he’s certainly not doing it with the permission or knowledge of the campaign, the activities that you described.” She adds: “He is certainly not authorized to do that.” 24 October At a campaign rally in Florida , Trump said: “I have nothing to do with Russia, folks, I’ll give you a written statement.” 11 November Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks denies claims from the Kremlin that Trump officials met with its staff.
(20) He bristled at the press conference when a reporter, Jake Tapper of ABC News, asked him why as president he had not tackled gun reform until now.