calender
Americannoun
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calenders
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a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
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a machine for impregnating fabric with rubber, as in the manufacture of automobile tires.
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Etymology
Origin of calender
1505–15; < Middle French calandre, by vowel assimilation < *colandre < Vulgar Latin *colendra, for Latin cylindrus cylinder; compare Middle English calendrer (< Anglo-French ) as name of occupation
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These vehicles divide your money between stocks and other investments and adjust that mix as the calender pages flip closer to retirement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2020
But a recent decision by the Executive Committee has two events now also coming off the calender.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2017
The biker calender above the desk still reads February 2006.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2012
Siemens still expects to sell shares in its Osram lighting unit, where sales grew 7 percent in the quarter, during the calender year 2012, CFO Kaeser said.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 24, 2012
The calender always flattens and imparts a luster to the cloth passed through it.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
He kept going back to his precious ledgers of innocence, the calenders.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2018
School districts across the state are racing to adopt their 2017-2018 calenders and are scrambling to see whether they will have to reduce spring breaks to adhere to the mandate.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2016
He diverted himself with the multitude of calenders, santons, and dervises, who had travelled from the heart of India, and halted on their way with the emir.—W.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The caliph and his attendants, upon their entrance, most courteously made obeisance to the ladies and to the calenders.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Milo Winter
Zobeide having given this command, the caliph, the vizier, Mesrour, the three calenders, and the porter, departed; for the presence of the seven slaves with their weapons awed them into silence.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Milo Winter
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