Tapper vs Taper - What's the difference?
tapper | taper |
One who taps
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
A tap-dancer
A phone tapper or wiretapper
(US) A tapster
(telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
(UK, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
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.
As nouns the difference between tapper and taper
is that tapper is one who taps while taper is a slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.As a verb taper is
to make thinner or narrower at one end.tapper
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Noun
(en noun)- A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in
taper
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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.