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Definition of Calender
1. Noun. A machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers.
2. Verb. Press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets. "Calender paper"
Definition of Calender
1. n. 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.
2. v. i. To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.
3. n. One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
Definition of Calender
1. Noun. (misspelling of calendar) ¹
2. Noun. 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. ¹
3. Noun. One who pursues the business of calendering. ¹
4. Verb. 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. ¹
5. Noun. One of a wandering, mendicant Sufic order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes, founded in the 13th century by an Arab named Yusuf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calender
1. to smooth by pressing between rollers [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calender
Literary usage of Calender
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Plate calender, calender. (1) The plate calender (fig. 10) is composed of a
framework A, in which are set two highly polished rolls of solid iron B, ..."
2. The American Cotton Spinner and Managers' and Carders' Guide: A Practical by Robert H. Baird (1851)
"DRAUGHT OF calender-ROLLERS. It often happens in drawing-frames, that there is
too much draught between the calender and fluted front rollers; ..."
3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"603 shows the manner in which the calender is geared to make it a glazing calender.
In this cut, a marks the top cylinder of the calender, upon which is ..."
4. The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1880)
"So the hapless young prince assumed the garb of a calender, wandered to Bagdad,
... This calender was the son of a king, and nephew of another king. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The calender may be regarded as an elaboration of the ordinary mangle, ...
Three distinct forms of calender are in use, viz. the ordinary calender, ..."
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