tapered end

collocation in English

meaningsoftaperedandend

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tapered
adjective
uk
/ˈteɪ.pəd/us
/ˈteɪ.pɚd/
becoming gradually narrower at ...
See more attapered
end
noun
uk
/end/us
/end/
the part of a place or thing that is furthest away from ...
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(Definition oftaperedandendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thetaperedendreduces the potential of crush artifact.
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This belief arose because hair that has not been cut has ataperedend(due to wear), whereas, after cutting, there is no taper.
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Thetaperedendis inserted into a hole with a final diameter just smaller than its current width.
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Human hairs were stuck in the drying blood on the flat, heavy end, and thetaperedend, used for driving nails into wood, was chipped.
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Thetaperedendof a drift punch is placed into the semi-aligned bolt holes of two separate components, and then driven into the hole.
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The extracted worms were whitish, slender, cylindrical with tapered ends, consistent with nematodes and highly motile.
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Measuring the long axis of the flute cast gives the direction of flow, with thetaperedendpointing toward the flow and the steep end up current.
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By centrifugal force, the collected solids moves along the bowl wall, out of the pool and up the dewatering beach located at thetaperedendof the bowl.
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Measuring the long axis of the flute cast gives the direction of flow, with the scoop-shaped end pointing in the upcurrent direction and thetaperedendpointing downcurrent (paleoflow direction).
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Along the veins are elongate cells with tapered ends, similar in size and shape to those on the adaxial surface.
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Then, in 2010, researchers fabricated a way to manufacture nanopillars with tapered ends.
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The knitting of new stitches occurs only at the tapered ends.
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The eggs are shaped like elongated teardrops, with the more tapered ends pointed downwards and imbedded about halfway in the sediment.
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Its cells are anaerobic, sigmoidal with tapered ends, 2 to 6 m long.
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The larva is apodous and eucepalic, cylindrical, very long and thin and with tapered ends.
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Some are carved with tapered ends.
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The long shaft "holds" the active (unsecured) stitches of the fabric, to prevent them from unravelling, whereas the tapered ends are used to "form new stitches".
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Individuals with trichotillomania exhibit hair of differing lengths; some are broken hairs with blunt ends, some new growth with tapered ends, some broken mid-shaft, or some uneven stubble.
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