Taxer vs Taper - What's the difference?
taxer | taper |
One who taxes.
(UK, Cambridge University) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.
(Webster 1913)
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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 taxer and taper
is that taxer is one who taxes while taper is a slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light or taper can be (weaving) one who operates a tape machine.As a verb taper is
to make thinner or narrower at one end.taxer
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Alternative forms
* taxorNoun
(en noun)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.