Definitions for Calender

Calender cal·en·der

Spelling: [kal-uh n-der]
IPA: /ˈkæl ən dər/

Calender is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 315 anagrams from letters in Calender (acdeelnr).

Definitions for Calender

noun

  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.
  3. qalandar.
  4. (in Islamic countries) one of an order of mendicant dervishes founded in the 14th century.

verb (used with object)

  1. to press in a calender.

Origin of Calender

1505-15; Middle French calandre, by vowel assimilation *colandre Vulgar Latin *colendra, for Latin cylindrus cylinder; compare Middle English calendrer (Anglo-Fre

Examples for Calender

He had no sooner returned this answer, than a third calender overtook us.

“Ay, where the Frenchmen live that calender worsted,” returned Giles.

The calender rollers are heated so as to keep the rubber compound plastic.

Whereof at present we find experience in the calender we observe.

To calender paper, it is run through a series of alternate "chilled" and "paper" rolls.

The calender is also used to press rubber into sheets of uniform thickness.

The verb to calender, to press and gloss cloth, etc., is from Old Fr.

You are usurping the Pope's function, and adding a new name to the calender.

Referring to his Shepheards calender Spenser thus gracefully indicates his change from pastoral to epic poetry.

They are then subjected to the powerful pressure of the calender rollers.

Word Value for Calender
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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