Term: tapering: the act of gradually lowering the size or amount
Candidate hypernym: change of magnitude: the act of changing the amount or size of something → 1
Candidate hypernym: fastener: a person who fastens or makes fast → 0
Candidate hypernym: medic: any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: agnatha: superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms → 0
Candidate hypernym: subgenus calliopsis: used in some classification systems for some plants of genus Coreopsis → 0
Candidate hypernym: clipping: an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine → 0
Candidate hypernym: psaltery: an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings → 0
Candidate hypernym: tie tack: a pin used to hold the tie in place → 0
Candidate hypernym: featherweight: an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: sabin vaccine: an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis → 0
Candidate hypernym: kookaburra: Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry → 0