Crossword clues for calender
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calender \Cal"en*der\, n. [Per. qalender.] One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
Calender \Cal"en*der\, n. [F. calandre, LL. calendra, corrupted fr. L. cylindrus a cylinder, Gr. ?????????. See Cylinider.]
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 of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
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One who pursues the business of calendering.
My good friend the calender.
--Cawper.
Calender \Cal"en*der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Calendered; p. pr.
& vb. n. Calendering.] [Cf. F. calandrer. See Calender,
n.]
To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and
glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper,
etc.
--Ure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to pass through a calender," a machine which smooths and presses paper, cloth, etc., 1510s, from Middle French calandre, the machine name, from Medieval Latin calendra (see calender (n.)).
"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, from Latin cylindrus, from Greek kylindros "roll, cylinder" (see cylinder).
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 of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. 3 One who pursues the business of calendering. vb. To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper etc., as in the homonymous machine. Etymology 2
n. One of a wandering, mendicant Sufic order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes, founded in the 13th century by an Arab named Yusuf.
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"
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 from the process (off-line) are also called supercalenders. The purpose of a calender is to make the paper smooth and glossy for printing and writing, as well as of a consistent thickness for capacitors that use paper as their dielectric membrane.
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.