Definitions for calibers

calibers cal·i·ber

Spelling: [kal-uh-ber]
IPA: /ˈkæl ə bər/

Calibers 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 530 anagrams from letters in calibers (abceilrs).

Definitions for calibers

noun

  1. the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube:
  2. Ordnance. the diameter of the bore of a gun taken as a unit of measurement.
  3. degree of capacity or competence; ability:
  4. degree of merit or excellence; quality:

Origin of calibers

1560-70; variant of calibre Middle French ≪ Arabic qālib mold, last Greek kālápous shoe last, equivalent to kāla- combining form of kâlon wood + poús foot (see Examples for calibers

He swaggered into the school cafeteria that day with a .22 caliber handgun and started shooting randomly.

Had he dreamed of the hammer blow of that forty-five caliber bullet?

Hundreds and thousands of people have minds of this caliber.

Still, the school has gotten more difficult to get into and the caliber of student attending has improved, as a result.

When the body of Johnson was exhumed, the medical examiner was acutely chagrined when six .22 caliber rounds were removed from it.

Sufficiently expert to care little for an enemy of his caliber.

What business could a detective of his caliber have to do with Bertrand Rockamore?

Guns of all caliber belched their deadly missiles at the charging French.

It was later reported that the weapon was a BB gun that appeared to be a .45-caliber pistol.

The caliber at which Sam and the entire crew preformed dubbed them professionals not students.

Word Value for calibers
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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