tapering

The tail is thick and round at the base, tapering to a fine point and curling over or to either side of the back.

It is better to let some of the tapering-slender and long autumn grass grow at the bottom of the morning glory, serving as a contrast.

The head should be refined and its shape, when viewed from top or side, should be a long, blunt wedge tapering slightly from ears to nose.

His interest in poetry seems to be tapering off.

Should be very muscular, long, arched and clean, tapering from the shoulders to the head and it should be free from loose skin.

By the time I reached the spot, the bow-fest was tapering off through exhaustion, and the Japanese ladies went on their way.

A long tapering spar slung to a MAST to support and spread the head of a square sail, lugsail, or lateen.

The utility model relates to a grooving and a tapering die sets for slit steel tube friction anchor rod.

Although the building is old-fashioned in its construction, the tapering tower is modern in its lack of exterior ornamentation.

Albanese added that he expected Chinese demand for iron ore to remain strong for the next five years or so before tapering off.

Wedge-shaped, when viewed from above. Slightly arched when viewed from the side, tapering to stop.

As it matures, China's boom is tapering off and simply outgrowing debt will no longer be an option.

The typical leaf is pinnatifid, tapering gradually to a stout petiole and becoming broader toward the large terminal lobe.

a conical child's toy tapering to a steel-shod point on which it can be made to spin.

A triangular or tapering piece of cloth forming a part of something, as in a skirt or sail.

Stem copiously branched, branches slender; basal leaves spatulate or oblanceolate, tapering into a long petiole.

Ribs well sprung and springing gradually to mid-body, tapering to back ribs which are of good depth and extend well back.

Accurate stitching, tapering to the vanishing point, insures an almost invisible blending of the stitching with the fabric .

of a leaf shape; having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base.

In 2008, after she got engaged, and after consulting her psychiatrist, Meredith decided to start tapering off lithium.

The problem associated with this particular gate design is with respect to the machining of the tapering curved orifice in the mould plate.

lemmas 3-veined, gradually tapering to an entire apex continuing into a slender awn.

If his writing appears predominantly thread-like, unwinding or tapering towards the end of letters and words, then you better be careful.

Until the stubborn into today's once, until bei shadow tapering off, leaving only a sigh.

prickles dense, straight, fine, firm, flat, tapering to an elliptic base, intermixed with glandular hairs on young branches.

blade membranous, herbaceous or coriaceous, usually with parallel venation, base usually tapering into petiole.

I haven't stopped smoking entirely, but I'm tapering off to three cigarettes a day.

Filaments flattened or narrowly winged, tapering gradually toward apex; seeds variously winged or wingless, not discoid.

prickles numerous, yellowish, straight, unequally long and thick, abruptly tapering to broadened base.

Any of various small slender parrots , usually having long tapering tails and often kept as pets .

Indeed, one proximate cause of the crisis was a tapering-off of export growth.

tapering to base, with multicellular white hairs, margin irregularly denticulate, apex rounded or obtuse.

The ears are of moderate size, proportionately wide at the base and gradually tapering to a rounded tip.

an elongate tail tapering to a point; the old man's gaunt and elongated frame.

The carbon-fiber stalks, reinforced with resin, are about a foot wide at the base tapering to about 2 inches at the top.

feather edge: a thin fragile edge, especially a tapering edge of a board.

Depending on their mental health history, these women may attempt tapering and going off their medications if symptom-free.

Its head is crested with five tapering horns, and its face is armored with dermal bone plates.

Spindle-shaped; broadest near the middle and tapering toward both ends.

prickles scattered, straight or slightly curved, flat, gradually tapering to turgid base.

The main stem of a tree is a tapering geometric solid.

Seed elliptic, base gradually tapering, apex rounded, ventral holes furrowed upward from base to apex.

Weekly jobless claims fell to an eight-month low, a sign layoffs are tapering off, though hiring has yet to pick up.

The flu began in Russia, but spread rapidly through Europe, reaching North America and Asia before tapering off.

medium long, heavy at base, tapering to abrupt blunt end in appearance but with normal tapering final vertebrae.

The tapering of the sides of the arms, the seat of the chair and the table accentuate the beauty of the light shining on their surfaces.

A long, tapering flag bearing heraldic devices distinctive of a person or corporation.

When angry, two erect ears back to the pupils, tapering to shrink, beard forward erect.

Stylopodium long-conic, divided and tapering into the short, erect styles.

Back of the hair, just cut a little bit short and tapering, please.

of equal width and depth where its insets to the skull, tapering somewhat, equally form all angles.

Match the balance marks carefully and complete by tapering the stitching past the drill hole in the usual way.

In ancient Egypt, pairs of tapering stone towers called pylons marked the entrances of temples.

By tapering these towers to the top, different floorsizes can be made.

Corticosteroids given on alternate days are efficacious and have few adverse effects if they are given in a slow, tapering course.

The number of applicants for the course has been tapering off recently.

A tapering extension of land projecting into water; a peninsula, cape, or promontory.

Curved and tapering to a point; sickle - shaped.

snout short and bluntly pointed. Body elongated, tapering abruptly from the first dorsal-fin base.

ovary conoid, tapering into style ca. 7 mm, densely tomentose, glandular, rarely glabrous; style glabrous.

Woodruff keys are particularly suitable for tapering shaft ends.

Drupe yellow or orange, ovoid-globose, ca. 5 mm, slightly strigose, tapering at both ends, enclosed by persistent calyx.

prickles scattered, hooked, to 6 mm, flat, gradually tapering to a broad base.

Anteaters feed on ants, for which their long, tapering snouts are ideally suited.

Hydraulic bar tapering unit, opposed to cutting hydraulic unit.

On the blue bag which is made the correct way, the lining of the lid is over the top of the tapering that meets the zip.

leaf blade oblanceolate, to 4 cm or longer, base tapering, margin irregularly incised toothed, apex obtuse.

Gradually tapering to a slender point.

This tapering period will allow your body to recover from all those months of training.

Larger culm sheath auricle not slanted downward, not tapering.

Materialistic, warm taste moved closer, love is tapering off.

What matters most is the bigger race coming up, when you'll be better rested after tapering.

However, a slower rate of increase led the government to suggest that the rise was tapering off.

A cigar with a long, tapering body and blunt ends.

prickles scattered, curved, to 2 mm, stout, flat, gradually tapering to broader base.

very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.

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prickles scattered and in pairs below leaves, terete, straight, to 1 cm, abruptly tapering to turgid base.

Petiole short; leaf blade spatulate to ovate, 3-6 cm, black when dry, base tapering, margin serrate or rarely double serrate.

11 (10) Larger culm sheath auricle slanted downward along sheath margin, gradually tapering.

Casualties are now tapering off .

Study Question: What is the evidence that a platelet rebound exists, and can it be attenuated by clopidogrel tapering?

Does it have a bigger top and a tapering bottom?

leaf blade obovate-spatulate, 1. 5-9 cm including petiole, base tapering, margin undulate and toothed, or irregularly crenate.

Branches arising from basal 3rd or 4th node up; larger auricle of culm sheath oblong, not tapering.

leaf blade obovate, 1-4 cm, fleshy, base obtuse and tapering, margin entire or sinuate-toothed.

leaf blade obovate to obovate-spatulate, 1-4 cm, base tapering, margin incised-serrate.

gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long.

Tapering fingers are like a taper candle which is shaped so that it diminishes in diameter at one end.

"Sacrifice" in the context of today has some strange, WuWenBin is a heroic tapering off under the real heroes.

In this way, the grooving anchor rods can taper in the tapering die set.

Morello: Shen has been tapering off since his damage nerfs.

A slender, tapering part, such as a newly sprouting blade of grass.

leaf blade oblanceolate, 15--50 X 3--10 mm, tapering to base, glabrous, margin entire or occasionally remotely denticulate, apex obtuse.

Analysts are expecting European earnings to rise about 25-35 per cent this year before tapering to 10-15 per cent next year.

Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 8 cm, base tapering into 1-2 cm stipe, apex acute.

All is but let us at tapering off, I'd like to tell you how willingly himself fall

Experimental study of tapering columns subjected axial load

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Dynamic-Shape-Curve Function for Fused Tapering Optical Fiber

Bulbs truncate basally, sometimes elongate and tapering apically, covered with a tunic;

Research on Regulation of Tapering Arrangement and Body Function Changing of Junior Female Shot Putter

branchlet systems tapering and gradually becoming shorter from base to apex of system;

Tapering Shape Function for a Fused Fiber

ovary conoid, tapering into the style, ca. 5 mm, densely glandular-hairy and stellate-tomentose;

Methods for cutting knotted netting to shape (tapering)

Forming and Tapering of Large-Sized Conical Section with Thick Wall

ovary cylindric, tapering into style, ca. 4 mm, glabrous or densely gray-white-tomentose when young;

the bottles and cans for use on a tapering off paper labels;

style ca. 2 mm, slender, tapering to apex, nearly as long as filaments, tomentose at base;

filaments ca. 3 mm, tapering upward, incurved, near base adaxially rust-colored pubescent;

ovary conoid, tapering into style ca. 5. 5 mm, tomentose;

wings 7--12(--25) mm wide, basally deeply clasping node, tapering toward apex;