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calender

American  
[kal-uhn-der] / ˈkæl ən dər /

noun

  • calenders
    plural
  1. a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.

  2. a machine for impregnating fabric with rubber, as in the manufacture of automobile tires.


verb (used with object)

  1. to press in a calender.

calender 1 British  
/ ˈkælɪndə /

noun

  1. a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to subject (material) to such a process

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
calender 2 British  
/ ˈkælɪndə /

noun

  1. a member of a mendicant order of dervishes in Turkey, Iran, and India

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 history of the first calender appeared very surprising to the whole company, and particularly to the caliph.

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

Perhaps some of the gold pieces in Bagdad had put less warmth and hope into the complainants among the bazaars than had Quigg's beef stew among the fishermen and one-eyed calenders of Manhattan.

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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 caliph, who heard this, came up to him and the other calenders, and asked them what might be the meaning of all this?

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