(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.
(n.) One who pursues the business of calendering.
(n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.
(n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ighalo has 26 to his name during this calender year, making him the top scorer across the whole of English football in 2015, with the one he secured for Watford in their 1-0 victory over Sunderland on 12 December taking his tally to 10 in his debut campaign in the Premier League.
(2) No, you don’t have to check your calender, it is still only early March.
(3) Parents noted episodes of diarrhoea in children on a calender using a given definition of diarrhoea.
(4) Although they concede Stonehenge was probably "multifunctional", possibly also serving as a giant calender marking the solstices, as well as a site of ancestor worship, they are convinced its true importance came from the modest bluestones, the size of a man or smaller, dwarfed by the awesome sarsens.
(5) The paste is calendered biaxially in a standard rubber mill.
(6) The timing of the cold snap is very bad for the non-food retailers as this weekend is ranked as the third most important on the retail calender.
(7) An analysis was undertaken of the evening, weekend and public-holiday emergency dental service provided at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children during one calender year (1987).
(8) The fumes emitted from the tyre tread line, calender feeding, and tyre vulcanizing processes, showed the highest mutagenic activity (55-211 rev mg-1, + S9).
(9) There is little chemical change during the compounding, calendering, extrusion, and molding steps.
(10) Dick Advocaat demands Sunderland buy ‘two or three more players’ Read more The ad starts: “We are looking for a highly experienced Executive Personal Assistant who will be working closely with senior manager of Defoe Enterprise Ltd. You will be working for a high profile individual within the sports industry so the candidate must therefore, by nature, be very flexible and hands-on and be capable [of] multitasking, most importantly you must maintain the highest level of confidentiality in order to assist the manager.” The successful candidate will be involved in “scheduling and organising the manager’s and families’ private, social and business calenders, arranging all public appearances, arranging and securing travel arrangements, working on selected business projects and maintaining daily itineraries”.
(11) • March 2000 Ashcroft memo to Hague "I hereby give you my clear and unequivocal assurance that I have decided to take up permanent residence in the UK again before the end of this calender year."
(12) The pharmacists reviewed the patients' charts and pharmacy records to compile a complete drug history on a special "drug calender" form.
(13) Isolates were separated into 3 groups, determined by the calender year in which they were submitted.
(14) Suárez continued where he left off in 2013, a calender year that brought a remarkable 33 goals in 33 appearances for Liverpool, with a stunning free-kick that sealed his team's return to the Champions League places.
(15) Variations in incidence of months of birth and last menstrual period (LMP) were tested statistically in three different ways: standard X2-test for heterogeneity between recorded numbers of infants each calender month, Edwards' method, and a squared sinus function, all with or without correction for variations in general monthly birth rates.
(16) Statistics compiled from notifications of abortions performed in Sco tland during the calender year 1970 are presented in 17 tables.
(17) Its bestselling lines included 1.2m advent calenders and 750,000 Christmas gifts for pets.
(18) So if they think giving Phil Jackson control over the organization, a managerial job with an impressive sounding name, a Mayan Calender’s worth of vacation days and an Oompa Loompa now will appease Anthony and attract other players, the Knicks will do it.
(19) The change in these distributions as a function of calender age level was determined.
(20) As well as having a cafe-bar, there's a bike workshop that hosts regular maintenance courses, as well a calender of regular evening events.
Cylinder
Definition:
(n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
(n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
(n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form
(n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
(n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.
(n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
(n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
(n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(2) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
(3) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(4) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
(5) A Teflon cylinder was placed in the mid-left anterior descending coronary artery to create a 33% stenosis.
(6) The nylon group had the second highest amount of induced WTR cylinder at one day, which had decayed to ATR cylinder by five months.
(7) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
(8) Values obtained for thebuoyant density, isoelectric point, and extinction coefficient differed minimally; major differences were observed in the molecular weight and the characterisitc width of cylinders formed by in vitro-assembled T-layer of the wild-type and variant.
(9) The phantom combines an inhalation system which allows for the simulation of xenon buildup or washout in the arterial blood as well as a multisection translatable cylinder in which several sections can be scanned during a preselected protocol to simulate the CT enhancement in brain tissue during a study.
(10) The regeneration of myofibers across the scar follows a pattern different from that within BL cylinders.
(11) The change in refractive astigmatism was as high as 1.50DC (diopter cylinder).
(12) Furthermore, it is demonstrated that a thin perforated membrane fitted on the inside of the wall of a glass cylinder filled with water, will detach, with rotatory movements.
(13) Experiments were performed in a cylinder full of beads open at one end and closed at the other in which a mixture of oxygen with helium or argon or sulphur hexafluoride could diffuse with ambient air through the open end.
(14) The air pressure in the skin cup was continually adjusted (using an electromechanical servo-control system) to pull the skin upward and to hold it perfectly flat across the upper ridge of the Teflon cylinder.
(15) The smaller spheres and some of the cylinders exploded and fragments and even whole cylinders weighing around 30 tons, were scattered over distances ranging from a few to up to 1200 m.
(16) In the first, a rotating cylinder is seen, though no variation in optical flow exists across the apparent cylinder.
(17) After curing of the cement in a environment of 37 degrees C the resulting cement rod was released from the cylinder and the diameter of the rod was measured at 37 degrees C. The influence of the "foaming effect" on the transverse dimensions of the rods was studied by curing the cement at 37 degrees C and 2 atm air pressure in a high-pressure-vessel.
(18) A procedure is described to construct a varifocal lens, after that described by Wood in 1905, to produce lenses known as 'non-homogeneous cylinders' or 'pseudo-lenses'.
(19) The free ends of the microtubules appear unraveled; they are seen first as single elements, then as doublets, and finally are arranged into a cylinder.
(20) A mathematical model of ozone absorption, or for any soluble gas that has similar transport properties, is developed for a branching network of liquid-lined cylinders.