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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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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The emails, and calender kept entries for Mr. Epstein while he was staying at his Manhattan mansion, were obtained through a public records request to the attorney general for the U.S.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
But a recent decision by the Executive Committee has two events now also coming off the calender.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2017
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
His work for the Pirelli calender opened his eyes to the earning potential of the commercial world.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2010
Then the third calender, knowing it was his turn to speak, addressed himself, like the others, to Zobeide, and began his history as follows:
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Milo Winter
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
These calenders are used for giving to the paper a smooth and even surface, and are also employed in the smoothing and finishing of cloth.
From A Book of Exposition by Homer Heath Nugent
One of the calenders, addressing himself to Zobeide, next spoke.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Milo Winter
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
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