(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.
Dervish
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Dervis
Example Sentences:
(1) It had taken me a week to track down the underground dervish scene in Istanbul - the only dervish contact I had in the city was a carpet-seller called Abdullah deep in the bazaar.
(2) Photographs can't prepare you for the disorienting feeling that the dervishes are defying gravity.
(3) The dervishes are all Sufis, seekers on the mystical path to God, and are members of different Brotherhoods, chief among them Mevlevis, the school founded by the mystic poet Rumi 700 years ago.
(4) Although no one could compare to Nusrat, the group remain formidable, and can be seen next month as part of the Barbican Centre's Ramadan Nights, which also features Sufi street singer Sain Zahoor, a more classical Arabic Sufi group, the al-Kindi Ensemble with Sheikh Habboush, and whirling dervishes from Syria.
(5) To keep cinemagoers happy, Abrams must deliver a dose of cosmic joy so pure and unfettered that it sets the midi-chlorians whirling like star-swept dervishes caught in the half-light of a departing X-Wing.
(6) The dervishes are meditation in movement, prayer as dance.
(7) 1979: Them Heavy People (the radio cut from the On Stage EP), which namedropped the Russian mystic Gurdjieff and Sufi whirling dervishes, a celebration of being intellectually-emotionally expanded: "it's nearly killing me … what a lovely feeling".
(8) Like much of Sufism, the performance of the whirling dervishes works on many levels and is charged with symbolism.
(9) Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith.
(10) At the same time, at the instigation of the Chancellor, it is rushing about like a dervish in an attempt to head off every Labour stunt that comes along.
(11) Every comment on the Games repeats this line, as if Olympic spirit was a subset of whirling-dervish fundamentalism.
(12) In casting this off the dervishes discard all worldly ties.
(13) Finally I found myself at a zikr (a remembrance) among 80 or so dervishes in a hidden tekke (religious house), and they began to chant, rhythmically, the name of Allah.
(14) The abuse hits other religious minorities, too – the Yarsan Kurds; Gonabadi Dervishes, who are Shia Muslims; and Christians.
(15) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(16) Still, there's no getting around it: Pakistan is beset with problems that no amount of jolly beer stories or whirling dervishes can remedy.
(17) However much time Oliver has spent in "poor communities", he is but a tourist there, looking at fire walkers and whirling dervishes and wondering "why on earth would they choose to do that?
(18) There was none of the passion I'd seen among the Istanbul dervishes.
(19) In any case, it is not surprising that Sufis and dervishes have had a tough time in many Islamic countries.
(20) When the tension was close to unbearable, 12 dervishes filed into the adjoining room and, in unison, took off their black cloaks - as if it were a holy fashion show - revealing white robes.