Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
taperings
plural of tapering
• repasting, retapings, string pea, trapesing
Source: Wiktionary
Ta"per*ing, a.
Definition: Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.
– Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.
Ta"per, n. Etym: [AS. tapur, tapor, taper; cf. Ir. tapar, W. tampr.]
1. A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius. Shak.
2. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
Ta"per, a. Etym: [Supposed to be from taper, n., in allusion to its form.]
Definition: Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
Ta"per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tapered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tapering.]
Definition: To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
Ta"per, v. t.
Definition: To make or cause to taper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 November 2024
(verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; “The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote”
Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.