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taper
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)
- 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.
- ~1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, scene I, line 157:
- (by extension) a small light.
- 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.
- 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)
- (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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3
- (intransitive) To diminish gradually.
Synonyms
- narrow
Derived terms
- taper off
Translations
Adjective
taper
- Tapered; narrowing to a point.
Etymology 2
tape +? -er
Noun
taper (plural tapers)
- (weaving) One who operates a tape machine.
- 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
- 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
- (transitive) to slap, knock, beat
- (transitive) to type (use a keyboard or typewriter)
- (transitive with sur) to hit, beat, rap
- (intransitive) to beat down (of the sun); to go to one's head (of wine etc.)
- (intransitive, slang) to stink, pong, reek
- (reflexive, slang) to put away (a meal etc.)
- Je me suis tapé un bon petit hamburger hier soir.
- (reflexive, vulgar, slang) to fuck (have sex)
- Il s'est tapé la fille de son patron.
- (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)
- 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)
- (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)
- a loser
Related terms
- tapar (Nynorsk)
Verb
taper
- present tense of tape (“to lose”)
Etymology 2
Noun
taper m
- indefinite plural of tape
Verb
taper
- 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
- 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
- to throw
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thin
English
Etymology
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunn?, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjan? (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh?us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Sanskrit ??? (tanú, “thin”), Persian ???? (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophones: tin (with th-stopping), fin (with th-fronting)
Adjective
thin (comparative thinner, superlative thinnest)
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- thin person
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Water is thinner than honey.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- a thin disguise
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- 2016, Hartmut Wolf, ?Peter Forsyth, ?David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation (page 105)
- In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
- 2016, Hartmut Wolf, ?Peter Forsyth, ?David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation (page 105)
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)
- Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
- 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)
Synonyms
- (having little thickness from one surface to its opposite): narrow; see also Thesaurus:narrow
- (very narrow in all diameters): fine
- (having little body fat or flesh): reedy, skinny, slender, slim, svelte, waifish; see also Thesaurus:slender or Thesaurus:scrawny
- (of low viscosity): runny, watery; see also Thesaurus:runny
- (not close or crowded): spaced out, sparse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- (not numerous): scant, scarce, slight
Antonyms
- thick
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
thin (plural thins)
- (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
- Any food produced or served in thin slices.
- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
Translations
Verb
thin (third-person singular simple present thins, present participle thinning, simple past and past participle thinned)
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
- To dilute.
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
Derived terms
- thin out
Translations
Adverb
thin (comparative more thin, superlative most thin)
- Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
- seed sown thin
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- Spain is a nation thin sown of people.
Further reading
- thin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- thin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- thin at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Nith, hint
Middle English
Etymology 1
Determiner
thin (subjective pronoun þou)
- Alternative form of þin (“thy”)
Pronoun
thin (subjective þou)
- Alternative form of þin (“thine”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
thin
- Alternative form of thinne (“thin”)
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n.
Determiner
th?n
- thy, your (singular)
- thine, yours
Inflection
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: dijn
- Dutch: dijn
- Limburgish: dien
Further reading
- “th?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ði?n/
Determiner
th?n
- Alternative form of din
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
Old Saxon
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?n/
- (late Old Saxon) IPA(key): [ði?n]
Determiner
th?n
- thy, your (singular)
- thine, yours
Declension
See also
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch, (5. Auflage) 2014
- Altsächsisches Elementarbuch by Dr. F. Holthausen
Etymology 2
See here.
Determiner
thin
- instrumental singular masculine/neuter of th?
Welsh
Noun
thin
- Aspirate mutation of tin.
Mutation
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