taper

Object

• relief: I would end taper relief on capital gains tax.
• reamer: The majority were reamed using tapered reamers in a pillar drill.
• bearing: Some owners have used taper roller bearings on the TC front end.
• regimen: The taper phase regimen used in clinical trials involved decreasing the daily dose by 10 mg at weekly intervals.
• rod: The latest trend seems to be for fast taper rods of high test curves over 3lbs.
• roller: This applies both to high speed low noise and to low speed tapered roller and spherical roller bearings subject to shock or vibration loads.

Preposition: at

• end: The width of a ribbon cannot be tapered at either end.

Adjective modifier

• lighted: The hollows would be filled with oil, and lighted tapers would float in them.

Modifies a noun

• relief: Moreover, existing taper relief will not be lost on a transfer between spouses.

Modifying Another Word

• elegantly: Long, elegantly tapered fingers calmly begin shaping it into the rough form of a rose.
• gradually: Many heavy drinkers fail to quit cold turkey but do much better when they taper gradually, or even learn to moderate their drinking.
• sharply: There are types of swords with straight backs yet curved edges, and others that widen toward the point but then taper sharply.
• gently: In some places, usually on the edge of the moor the walls can be seen to gently taper toward a gate.
• smoothly: The structure is " a chunk of metal smoothly tapered to a sharp edge.
• slightly: These should be tapered slightly - the bottom edge slightly narrower than the gap, the top edge slightly wider than the gap.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: I am tapering off very slowly using the two separate drugs.
• down: Across the Solway, the hazy mountains of Cumbria taper down to St Bees Head.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: Moreover, the people who quit using cocaine reported that their craving did not return once they tapered off vigabatrin.

Present participle complement

• turn: The top of the unit could be offset on the sole plate for simple taper turning.

Preposition: in

• thickness: Wide span center section of constant chord but tapering slightly in thickness, and two outer sections tapering in chord and thickness.