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Definition: Calender |
CalenderNoun1. A machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers. Verb1. Press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets; as of paper or cloth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "calender" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | A mechanical method done by rollers to provide glaze, glossiness, hardness, luster, sheen, and even embossed designs to textile materials. Calendering is done to afford a special finish to f abrics. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A machine in which heavy rollers(bowls)rotate in contact under mechanical or hydrauli pressure. The bowls may be a thick-walled steel shell heated internally. All bowls may rotate at the same surface speed, or one highly polished and heated bowl may rotate at a higher surface speed than the rest. In certain specialized machines, e. g. , for knitted goods, two adjacent bowls may be heated, or, in the case of a laundry calender, one roller works against a steam chest shaped to the curvature or the roller. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A roller will comprising three or more heated rolls and used to produce sheet material of high finish and close dimensional tolerances. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Machine used to coat one or both sides of cord fabric with rubber, or to make rubber strips. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A machine in which a material such as paper or board is subjected to a mechanical treatment in a roll nip which changes its shape or surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smoothness | Verb: smooth, smoothen; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll; macadamize; polish, burnish, calender, glaze; iron, hot-press, mangle; lubricate; (oil). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Calender Issue 2001 (2001) | |
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| "Sisters 2" by Carl Dwyer Commentary: "A few shots of a "Sisters" calender i did 4 a friend of mine, they are really sisters,check out their eye colour and mouth : ) easy 2 C eh : ))." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Calender" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Calender" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "calender" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Calender | Last name | 300 | 23,968 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "calender"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kalandroj. (various references) | |
Arabic | سجل (book, cut, enroll, enter, history, list, log, mark, mark down, note, put down, rap, record, register, registry, score, send in, set down, sign on, take notes, tally, transcribe, write down), درج في لائحة, بيان جامعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сатинирам, каландър, гланцирам с валяци, пресовам (extrude, press, reduce, roll), преса за сатиниране на хартия, преса за изглаждане на плат, изглаждам (adjust, atone, face, file, iron out, level, make up, patch, patch up, plane, planish, polish, polish up, press out, reconcile, sleek, slick, smarm, smooth, sponge out). (various references) | |
Chinese | 排进日程表 (Calendered, Calendering). (various references) | |
Danish | satinermaskine (glazing machine), pressevalse, kalandrering (calendering), kalandrere (calendering), kalandre, kalander, glittekalander (glazing machine), glitte (burnish, glaze, press). (various references) | |
Dutch | calender, satineren (glaze, glazing, press), satineerkalander (glazing machine), kalanderen (calendering), kalander. (various references) | |
Finnish | silottaa (smooth), kiillotuskone (glazing machine), kalanteri (mangle). (various references) | |
French | calandre. (various references) | |
German | streichen (apply, ax, axe, bow, cancel, coat, cross off, cross out, cut, daub, delete, discard, draw, elapse, kill, make a stroke, paint, put on, ramble, removal, remove, roam about, spread, stop, strike, stroke, sweep, to cancel, to discard, to elapse, to paint, waft, wander, write off), Satiniermaschine (glazing machine), satinieren (glaze, satin-coat), kalandrieren (calendering), kalandern, Kalander, glätten (even, face, iron, make smooth, neaten, plane, polish, polish up, sleek, smooth, smooth away, smooth out, straight out, to smooth). (various references) | |
Greek | κυλινδρισμός (calendering), καλάνδρα (glazing machine), καλανδράρω, σύστημα κυλινδρώσεως, σιδερώνω (do the ironing, iron, mangle, press), στιλβωτικόσ κύλινδροσ, γκλασάρω,σατινάρω,στιλβώνω χαρτί (glaze), μηχανή στίλβωσης (glazing machine), μάγγανο (mangle), πιέζω (bear, besiege, coerce, jam, press, push (for something), squeeze, wring). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לערגל (roll). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mángorol (mangle, to mangle, to plate), mángorlógép. (various references) | |
Italian | calandra (calandra lark), cilindrare (press, roll), calandrare (glaze). (various references) | |
Manx | smoodeyder (ironer), smoodal (iron, ironing, smooth, smooth over, smoothing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alendercay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calandra (roller, rolling machine), calandrar (mangle), acetinar (mangle). (various references) | |
Romanian | calandru (mangle), calandra (press, roll), cãlca (break, foot, go, hot-press, infringe, iron, mangle, press, smooth, step, tread, trespass, violate), presa (compress, crowd, dun, force, impact, jam, journalism, nip, press, push, squeeze, stress, urge), mangal (brazier, char, charcoal). (various references) | |
Russian | коландр, каландровать, каландр (mangle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | presovati (press), mašina za impregnaciju automobilskih guma, mašina za glačanje, impregnirati gume. (various references) | |
Spanish | calandria (malingerer), calandrar (press). (various references) | |
Swedish | satineringsmaskin, satinera (glaze, polish), mangla (mangle), mangel (mangle, wringer), kalender (almanac, calendar, diary, yearbook), kalander (glazing machine, mangle), glätta (glaze, gloss, planish, polish, sleek, smooth), almanacka (almanac, calendar, diary). (various references) | |
Thai | ปฏิทินที่ทำขึ้นโดยจูเลียส ซีซาร์ โดยปีหนึ่งจะมี 365 วัน และ 366 วันทุก 4 ปี (Julian calender). (various references) | |
Turkish | silindirden geçirmek (mangle), silindir (cylinder, cylindrical, road roller, roll, roller), perdahlamak (glaze, polish, satin, shoot, sleek, vitrify), perdah makinesi (polisher, surfacer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | качалка (battledore), катати, каландрувати, каландр, гладити (press), лощити, лощильний прес, дервіш (dervish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "calender": calendered, calenderer, calenderers, calendering, calenders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "calender": supercalender. (additional references) | |
Words containing "calender": supercalendered, supercalendering, supercalenders. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: candler, cleaned, cleaner, cleared, creedal, declare, enlaced, learned, recaned, reclean, relaced. | |
-2 letters: aneled, candle, careen, cedarn, cereal, cradle, craned, credal, crenel, dancer, darnel, dealer, decane, decare, decern, earned, endear, enlace, lanced, lancer, lander, leaden, leader, leaned, leaner, lender, nacred, neared, recane, reclad, relace, relend. | |
-3 letters: acned, acred, alder, anele, arced, cadre, caned, caner. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: calenders, recleaned. | |
+2 letters: calendared, calendered, calenderer, chandelier, confederal, credential, crenelated, crenulated, freelanced, interlaced, precleaned, rebalanced, relaunched, screenland, undeclared. | |
+3 letters: accelerando, calenderers, calendering, candleberry, candlepower, centralised, centralized, chandeliers, chandleries, credentials, crenellated, decremental, deliverance, discernable, fraudulence, overcleaned, precanceled, recanalized, rechanneled, relandscape, screenlands, tabernacled, unreclaimed. | |
+4 letters: accelerandos, candleholder, candlepowers, cantilevered, chandeliered, cheerleading, considerable, credentialed, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, dechlorinate, decreasingly, deliverances, denuclearize, endotracheal, fraudulences, glycerinated, ineradicable, intercalated, overbalanced, precancelled, rechallenged, rechannelled, reinoculated, relandscaped, relandscapes, uncelebrated, uncorrelated, underclasses. | |
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