Caliber

Definitions: Caliber

Caliber

Noun

1. A degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber".

2. Diameter of a tube or gun barrel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "caliber" was first used: 1567. (references)

Synonyms: Caliber

Breadth, Thickness

Noun: breadth, width, latitude, amplitude; diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent; (space).

Degree

Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort.

Intelligence Wisdom

Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind.

Opening

Bore, caliber; pore; blind orifice; fulgurite,

Size

Capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.

Crosswords: Caliber

In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency raisons; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George. Based on the novel 'Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom' by Peter George.)

Kathleen, before you start counting the rings around my trunk, I think you should thank your lucky stars that a cheap, parasitic slug, such as yourself, is allowed even to cohabitate under the same roof with a woman of my caliber and credentials. (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason)

It's converted to use a special forty-five caliber, hundred and ten grain metal cartridge, with a five-hundred forty grain paper patch bullet. (Quigley Down Under; writing credit: John Hill)

If it's a miracle Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry, point 4-5 caliber miracle. (Zulu; writing credit: John Prebble;)

Servicing P-39: Synchronizing .50 Caliber Fuselage Guns (1943)

The Forty-Five Caliber War (1929)

Twin Caliber (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• CALIBER LEARNING NETWORK, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Caliber Publications Presents the Carpet Installation Training Handbook (reference)

• Colt Scouts, Peacemakers and New Frontiers in .22 Caliber (reference)

• High Caliber Talent (reference)

• Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• High Caliber (Bonus Disc) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Caliber 50 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• WMF Caliber Stainless Steel Wine Cooler (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Even work that is of sufficiently high caliber to be published in the scientific literature is not without limitations and design flaws, and all published work needs to be verified and expanded on by others before it can be applied with confidence in clinical situations. (references)

Business

There are a few annual franchise exhibitions in the UK each year, all of which are sponsored by the BFA. The BFA's goal is to ensure that the exhibitors are of a consistently high caliber and that the programs presented are valuable to both franchisers and franchisees. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mexico

On February 19, Jose Luis Ortega Mata, editor of the weekly Semanario de Ojinaga based in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, was shot twice in the head at close range with a .22 caliber firearm. (references)

Economic History

Cyprus

Employment permits are issued to the senior executives of companies as well as to other foreign personnel when administrative or technical staff of the same caliber cannot be found in Cyprus, or when the employment of the non-resident is absolutely necessary for conducting the business of the enterprise. (references)

Egypt

Additional procurement of command and control equipment, M1A1 tanks, M88A2 recovery vehicles, HMMWV's and other light wheeled vehicles, MLRS, TOW Missiles, large and small caliber ammunition, Night Vision Equipment, EW Equipment, chemical defense equipment, ambulances, ground surveillance radars, and driving simulators; as well as a second National Training Center and computerized war-gaming center. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

A raise in the salaries of judges attracted greater numbers of high caliber candidates. (references)

Guatemala

It was difficult to attract qualified personnel to the courts because of the low salaries offered, but a raise in the salaries of judges attracted greater numbers of higher caliber candidates. (references)

Peru

COMISEDH reported that Payano's body was exhumed, and an autopsy determined that Payano was killed by a gunshot from a small caliber firearm, not a rifle as claimed by the air force pathologist who performed the original autopsy. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

Also prohibited from importation are weapons such as swordsticks, daggers, bludgeons, rifles above 20 caliber, and antipersonnel mines. (references)

Vietnam

Its banks are poorly managed, not subject to standards laid out in the Basel capital accords, not audited by international caliber auditing firms (and if they are the results are state secrets), do not hold to international accounting standards and are overexposed to the state sector. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "caliber": .22 caliber ♦ .38 caliber ♦ .45 caliber ♦ A ship's caliber ♦ Caliber compasses ♦ Caliber rule ♦ large caliber. Additional references.

Albanian

cilësi (calibre, capacity, class, degree, fabric, merit, qualification, quality, sort, texture), vlerë (amount, asset, avail, calibre, denomination, feck, merit, price, purchase, quality, rate, valor, valour, value, worth), shkallë (accommodation ladder, calibre, degree, flight, gauge, gradations, grade, ladder, level, measure, notch, peg, phase, pitch, point, rate, rating, remove, scale, stadium, stair, staircase, stairway), peshë (calibre, Dolly, heft, load, meterage, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, strain, weight, weightiness), kalibër (bore, calibre, gauge, grade, groove, size), diametër i brendshëm (calibre). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عيار قطر جسم مستدير (calibre), ‏عيار (bore, calibre, gauge, standard), ‏صاحب مكانة (calibre), ‏الكاليبية مادة هلامية (calibre), ‏القطر الداخلي (calibre). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разред (category, grade, order, range, rank, rate), калибър (bore, calibre, gauge, size), величина (dimension, highness, largeness, magnitude, name, quantity, value). (various references)

Chinese 

口径 (Calibre). (various references)

Czech

ráže (calibre). (various references)

Farsi 

کالیبر, قطردهانه تفنگ یاتوپ , استعداد (Amplitude, Aptitude, Aptness, Art, Brilliance, Capacity, Genius, Gift, Ingenuity, Knack, Liability, Property, Shift, Tendency, Turquoise, Verve). (various references)

French

calibre (calibrates, calibre, caliper). (various references)

German

Schublehre (calliper, gauge, slide rule), kaliber (calibrator, calibre, caliper, Gage, gauge). (various references)

Greek 

ικανότητα (ability, aptitude, aptitude for, calibre, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, efficiency, faculty, fitness, knack, proficiency, prowess, rating, skill, sufficiency), αξία (calibre, denomination, merit, rate, valuation, value, worth, worthiness), διαμέτρημα (bore, calibre, gage, gauge, size). (various references)

Hebrew 

שעור קומ�" (calibre, importance, stature), קליבר (calibre), קוטר (calibre, diameter). (various references)

Hungarian

rátermettség (aptitude, calibre, dower, efficiency, faculty, gift, suitability), kaliber (bore, calibre, gage, gauge, pass, tapered), súly (bob, burden, calibre, gravity, heft, load, onus, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, purport, weight), furat (bore, borehole, calibre, mortice, mortise), formátum (calibre, format, size, stature), belső átmérő (bore, calibre, inside diameter), űrméret (calibre). (various references)

Italian

calibro (bore, calibre, calipers, Gage, gauge, roller gauge, size, template). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巨材 (big caliber, big timber). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょざい (big caliber, big timber, huge fortune). (various references)

Korean 

구경 (Calibre). (various references)

Pig Latin

alibercay.(various references)

Portuguese

caráter (calibre, character, desirability, dispossess, ethos, feature, fineness, Mold, mould, self, stuff, touch), calibre (bore, calibre, calipers, cylinder bore, Gage, gauge, range, roller gauge, size, template, templet), perfuração (bore, boring, breakdown, breakthrough, calibre, cutting, discharge failure, drilling, electric breakdown, first blow, first puff, perforation, perforation plate, preblowing, puffing, punched hole, puncture, rapierthrust), pano (bunting, cloth, fabric, linen, material, rag, sail, stuff, wooden cloth), importância (account, amount, archness, at the moment, bigness, calibre, concernment, consideration, gravy, import, importance, magnitude, materiality, matter, ponderosity, prestigious, salience, seriousness, significance, signification, stress, sum, value), furo de sonda (bore, calibre), diâmetro (bore, calibre, cylinder bore, diameter), aborrecimento (annoyance, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, calibre, ennui, inconvenience, nuisance, phew, resentment, satiety, tedium, trouble, unpleasantness, vexation, weariness). (various references)

Romanian

calibru (bore, calibre, compass, diameter, gauge, jig, pass, pattern, size, sort), valoare (acception, account, amount, assessment, calibre, consequence, cost, denomination, importance, interest, merit, price, purchase, quality, relief, time value, use, value, virtue, weight, worth). (various references)

Russian 

калибр (calibre, calliper, ga, gauge, groove, pass, pattern). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kalibar (calibre, gauge, line gauge). (various references)

Spanish

calibre (aesthesiometer, bore, calibers, calibre, calliper, compass, compasses, Gage, gauge, pair of compasses, profile, saw blade thickness, size, template, templet). (various references)

Swedish

kaliber (bore, calibre, gauge). (various references)

Turkish

yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, calibre, capability, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, faculty, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), kalibre (bore, calibre, Gage, gauge, jig), çap (bore, calibre, diameter). (various references)

Ukranian 

якість (affections, calibre, grade, property, quality, tenor, texture, virtue), розмір (admeasurement, bigness, calibre, format, metre, proportions, rate, scale, size, verse), розмах (area, calibre, dimension, reach, spread, swing), калібр (calibre, calipers, callipers, gauge, size, template), внутрішній діаметр (bore diameter, calibre), масштаб (area, calibre, gauge, measure, scale, scope, zodiac), достоїнство (calibre, desert, merit, meritoriousness, plus). (various references)

kalopodion. (various references)

qalib. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "caliber": calibers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Caliber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alibar, calabura, Caldbec, Calenberg, calib, calibr, calibur, Caliburn, calie, Caliterra, calliber, Callimba, caulibus, Ceibe, Celeborn, Celtiberic, Ciliberto, Clauberg, Dalibard, Dalibor, galibier, Kalabar, kalibari, Kalimera, klauber, Salimberi, Scaleber, Shillibeer. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: calibre.

-1 letter: bailer, caribe, eclair, lacier, librae.

-2 letters: abler, acerb, areic, ariel, baler, baric, birle, blare, blear, brace, brail, caber, cable, carle, ceiba, ceria, clear, erica, ileac, lacer, liber, libra, rabic, relic.

-3 letters: able, abri, acre, alec, aril, bail, bale, bare, bear, bice, bier, bile, birl, blae, brae, brie, carb, care, carl, ceil, cire, crab, crib, earl, ilea, lace, laic, lair, lari, lear, liar, lice, lier, lira, lire, race, rail, rale, real, rial, rice, riel, rile.

-4 letters: ace, ail, air, alb, ale, arb, arc, are, bal, bar, bel, bra, cab, car, cel, ear, era, ice, ire, lab, lac, lar, lea, lei, lib, lie, reb, rec, rei, ria, rib.

-5 letters: ab, ae, ai, al, ar, ba, be, bi, el, er, la, li, re.

+1 letter: albicore, barbicel, braciole, breccial, cabriole, calibers, calibred, calibres.

+2 letters: albicores, algebraic, bacterial, barbicels, bicameral, bracioles, bricolage, cabrioles, cabriolet, calibrate, incurable, irascible, lubricate.

+3 letters: abacterial, acquirable, amerciable, ascribable, backslider, becrawling, birthplace, branchline, bricklayer, bricolages, brilliance, cabriolets, calibrated, calibrates, charitable, clabbering, clambering, clofibrate, corbiculae, cranesbill, creditable, creditably, eradicable, extricable, herbicidal, incurables, linebacker, lubricated, lubricates, orbiculate, predicable, receivable, replicable, republican, scrabblier, silverback.

+4 letters: acerbically, aerobically, appreciable, appreciably, articulable, backsliders, bacterially, ballcarrier, beclamoring, berascaling, bimolecular, biometrical, birthplaces, blackbirded, blackbirder, blacklister, blackmailer, bleacherite, branchlines, bricklayers, brilliances, celebrating, celebration, certifiable, certifiably, chamberlain, charbroiled, charbroiler, cherishable, clofibrates, confirmable, cranesbills, depreciable, describable, discardable, discernable, embracingly, exercisable, hibernacula, increasable, inscrutable, intractable, irradicable, irrecusable, irrecusably, irrevocable, irrevocably, linebackers, lubricative, meroblastic, obstetrical, perceivable, perceivably, practicable, prebiblical, predicables, predictable, predictably, problematic, rebalancing, recalibrate, receivables, reclaimable, rectifiable, relubricate, republicans, scrabbliest, serviceable, serviceably, silverbacks, subliteracy, trafficable, verbalistic.

+5 letters: accreditable, bactericidal, bacteriology, ballcarriers, bicameralism, biomolecular, blackberries, blackbirders, blacklisters, blackmailers, bleacherites, borosilicate, brilliancies, celebrations, chamberlains, charbroilers, cherubically, childbearing, circulatable, considerable, considerably, contractible, coralberries, criticizable, curabilities, curveballing, cybernetical, decipherable, descrambling, discoverable, distractable, distractible, elucubrating, elucubration, herbicidally, hibernaculum, hyperbolical, incomparable, incorporable, ineradicable, ineradicably, inextricable, inextricably, liberalistic, microbalance, microwavable, nonbacterial, plebiscitary, precipitable, problematics, recalibrated, recalibrates, recognizable, recognizably, reconcilable, relubricated, relubricates, ribonuclease, rockabillies, secobarbital, tabernacling, traceability, uncalibrated, uncharitable, vocabularies.

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