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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Bowser said on a conference call last week with dozens of leaders that the District has explored adjusted summer schedules and a modified academic calender for the coming year.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
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
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
“Ay, where the Frenchmen live that calender worsted,” returned Giles.
From The Armourer's Prentices by W.J. Hennessy
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 Cloth Finishing establishment bleaches, starches, and calenders dimities, muslins, percales, and shirtings, and folds and wraps them for shipping.
From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark
You may run me through the calenders if I know what he's drivin' at.
From The Green Satin Gown by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
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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