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A machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers
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calender
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"machine which smooths and presses paper, cloth, etc.," 1510s (late 13c. in surnames of persons who use such a machine), 1510s, from Old French calandreur , from Medieval Latin calendra "cloth-pressing machine," so called from the shape of the machine used, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calender \Cal"en*der\, n. [Per. qalender.] One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers v. press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets; "calender paper"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (misspelling of calendar English) 2 A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A calender is a series of hard pressure rollers used to form or smooth a sheet of material such as paper or plastic film . In a principal paper application, the calender is located at the end of a papermaking process (on-line). Those that are used separately ...
Usage examples of calender.
You are guaranteed that you will never taste the same entree in a calender year and, if you own a winery or distillery, your table will be supplied with the best you have to offer.
The art of calendering or polishing papers until they were of a smooth, glossy surface, which was then practised by the Persians, was unknown to, or at least unpractised by, the early European makers.
You remember the Three Calenders, each of whom lost an eye--struck out in the most arbitrary and cruel fashion.
Now the Three Calenders could speak, and had the advantage of human intelligence, and yet each lost an eye, and they were as helpless in the hands of fate as this poor animal.
Ysgerryn ees-GAIR-ruhn Ysolla ee-SOHL-lah A Note on Dating Year One of the Deverry calender is the founding of the Holy City, approximately 76 C.
After softening (if necessary), the rubber may be calendered (rolled), molded or extruded.
After weaving, the fabric is calendered (pressed wet between hot and cold rollers) to lay the nap.
Only it is to be observed that if the death of Christ was dated on the twenty-fifth of March, his resurrection, according to Christian tradition, must have happened on the twenty-seventh of March, which is just two days later than the vernal equinox of the Julian calender and the resurrection of Attis.