Definitions for calenders

calenders cal·en·der

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

Calenders is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 629 anagrams from letters in calenders (acdeelnrs).

Definitions for calenders

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 calenders

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

Examples for calenders

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for calenders
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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