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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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
Pencil these ideas into your 2020 calender, and don’t be surprised if they achieve permanent marker status.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2020
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
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
The caliph endeavoured to prevail with the calenders to speak first; but they excused themselves, and at last they agreed that the porter should be the man.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
The calenders for jute almost invariably contain five different rollers, or "bowls," as they are usually termed; one of these bowls, the smallest diameter one, is often heated with steam.
From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by T. Woodhouse
One of them answered, No, madam, no otherwise than as we are all calenders; that is to say, as we observe the same rules.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
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