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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It was a ritual celebrated throughout Ukraine, in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches, which follow the Julian calender and will celebrate Easter this year on Sunday.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
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
Three distinct forms of calender are in use, viz. the ordinary calender, the friction calender and the embossing calender.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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 paper passes and repasses through these calenders until the requisite degree of smoothness and polish has been acquired.
From A Book of Exposition by Homer Heath Nugent
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, who heard this, came up to him and the other calenders, and asked them what might be the meaning of all this?
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
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