Taper vs Joggle - What's the difference?
taper | joggle |
A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
* ~1603 , William Shakespeare, ''Othello, Act I, scene I, line 157:
* 1913 ,
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object
A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
To make thinner or narrower at one end.
* 1851 ,
To diminish gradually.
To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
To jog or run while juggling.
(architecture) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
* Gwilt
(engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
(architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.
In transitive terms the difference between taper and joggle
is that taper is to make thinner or narrower at one end while joggle is to shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.In intransitive terms the difference between taper and joggle
is that taper is to diminish gradually while joggle is to shake or totter; to slip out of place.taper
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) taper, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- strike on the tinder, ho!/ Give me a taper .
- 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.
- the taper of a spire.
- The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.
Derived terms
* taperwiseVerb
(en verb)- Though true cylinders without — within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
Derived terms
* taper offSynonyms
* narrowEtymology 2
Anagrams
* ----joggle
English
Verb
(joggl)- The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.
