Tapering

(noun.) the act of gradually lowering the size or amount; 'the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose'.

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• The tube is 52 feet long, 4 feet diameter in the middle, tapering to a little over 3 feet at the ends. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Before this latter operation, the finished tapering, smoothing, varnishing and polishing is done by hand. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At the narrow end of the cue, the tapering ceases about three-quarters of an inch from the end and flanges out according to the kind of tip the player prefers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The body of the one-man air craft is about sixteen feet long, two feet wide and three inches thick, tapering to a point at each end. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• This, too, receives a rough rotundity and tapering on a lathe. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It is a long, light canoe (caique,) large at one end and tapering to a knife blade at the other. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You will be found out by your tapering waist and large bosom. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• A more sensational experiment is to substitute a tapering tin cup for the tube, then fill it with liquid air and immerse it in water. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In a few minutes the tapering tin cup has frozen on its outer walls a tumbler of ice. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I have said that the West is still moved by the tapering impulse of the pioneer, and I have ventured to predict that this would soon dwindle into an agricultural toryism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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