different between taper vs colonial

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?te?p?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?te?p?/
• Rhymes: -e?p?(?)
• 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”), or of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”). Compare Sanskrit ???? (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat; to be hot; to heat”). More at tepid.

Noun

taper (plural 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.

Derived terms

• taperwise

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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• narrow

Derived terms

• taper off

Translations

Adjective

taper

1. Tapered; narrowing to a point.

Etymology 2

tape +? -er

Noun

taper (plural tapers)

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

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

From Middle French taper, from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *tapp?n, *dabb?n (“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 *d?eb?- (“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. (transitive with sur) to hit, beat, rap
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.)

   Je me suis tapé un bon petit hamburger hier soir.

7. (reflexive, vulgar, slang) to fuck (have sex)

   Il s'est tapé la fille de son patron.

8. (reflexive) to put up with

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also

• frapper
• cogner

Further reading

• “taper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• parte, pâtre, prêta, tarpé

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Old English tapor, possibly from Latin pap?rus (if so, a doublet of paper).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?p?r/

Noun

taper (plural tapres)

1. taper (thin candle)

Descendants

• English: taper

References

• “t?per, 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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

taper

1. to throw

English

Etymology

From colony +? -al

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??l??.ni.?l/

Adjective

colonial (comparative more colonial, superlative most colonial)

1. Of or pertaining to a colony.
2. Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
3. (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
4. (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
5. Tending to form colonies (especially of cells). Synonym for colony-forming.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

colonial (plural colonials)

1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
2. (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.

Translations

Related terms

• colonization

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

colonial (masculine and feminine plural colonials)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• colonialisme
• colonialista

Related terms

• colònia

Further reading

• “colonial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “colonial” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “colonial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “colonial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?.njal/

Adjective

colonial (feminine singular coloniale, masculine plural coloniaux, feminine plural coloniales)

1. colonial

Noun

colonial m (plural coloniaux, feminine coloniale)

1. a colonial, a resident of a colony
2. a soldier dispatched to a colony

Further reading

• “colonial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

From colónia (“colony”) +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.?lo.ni.?aw/, /?ko.lo.?njaw/

Adjective

colonial m or f (plural coloniais, comparable)

1. (geopolitics) colonial (relating to colonies: regions ruled by another country)

2. (geopolitics) colonial; colonialistic (relating to colonialism)

   Synonym: colonialista

3. (chiefly art) colonial (relating to the period when a country was a colony)

4. (Brazil) relating to the culture of rural immigrant settlements

Derived terms

• colonialismo
• colonialista

Related terms

• colônia
• coloniano
• colono

Romanian

Etymology

From French colonial

Adjective

colonial m or n (feminine singular colonial?, masculine plural coloniali, feminine and neuter plural coloniale)

1. colonial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

colonia +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolo?njal/, [ko.lo?njal]

Adjective

colonial (plural coloniales)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• anticolonial
• colonialismo
• colonialista

Further reading

• “colonial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.