What's the difference between calender and plater?

Calender


Definition:

  • (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.

Plater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.
  • (n.) A machine for calendering paper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
  • (2) 14 (38%) of 37 chrome platers in 17 chrome electroplating factories surveyed had occupational contact dermatitis, chrome ulcers, or both.
  • (3) For the SGE method, a spiral plater was used to set up a concentration gradient of an antimicrobial agent within an agar plate across which bacterial strains were inoculated as radial streaks.
  • (4) Car painters and car platers were compared to car mechanics on Monday before work.
  • (5) Among specific causes of death, only lung cancer was found to be significantly higher than expected for all platers (16 observed, 8.9 expected; SMR 179; 95% CI 102-290).
  • (6) This study investigated the effect of HDI and HDI-BT on lung function and included two control groups: (1) car platers, exposed to the same solvents and grinding dust as car painters, but not to isocyanates, and (2) car mechanics (controls), not exposed to the mentioned agents.
  • (7) The study was limited by the lack of accurate job exposure details, and there was no record of smoking habits, but welders and caulkers showed a higher standardised mortality ratio for all causes, lung cancer, ischaemic heart disease, pneumonia, and accidents than platers and electricians.
  • (8) Plater and two pals then marched on to the stage in string vests, baggy shorts and false moustaches.
  • (9) The jazz-loving, heroically cigarette-smoking, Hull City-supporting Plater was a populist all-rounder with more than 300 assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films (his screenplay for DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy, directed by Christopher Miles in 1970, is probably his best) as well as journalism, six novels, broadcasting and teaching.
  • (10) Platers reported the highest fatigue rates in the shoulder regions during the test.
  • (11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
  • (12) The SMR for lung cancer of the chromium plater subgroup was highest among those exposed for the shortest period and among those exposed in the most remote calendar years.
  • (13) Irritant factors are therefore important in the aetiology of contact dermatitis in these chrome platers.
  • (14) The project was then quickly taken up by the BBC, attracting quality scriptwriters such as Alan Plater and Malcolm Bradbury and the actors Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan in the lead roles.
  • (15) plumbers, fitters and platers, 'a' was 0.4, 0.6 and 0.2 respectively.
  • (16) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
  • (17) The MN frequency in nasal mucosa was not altered in chromium platers, whereas a significant increase (p less than 0.01) in MN was found in 2 out of 3 subjects involved in the accidental EtO leakage and a non-significant increase in MN was found in the group chronically exposed to EtO.
  • (18) Excessive urinary excretion of beta 2-microglobulin, a specific proximal tubule brush border protein, and retinol-binding protein has been reported among chrome platers and welders.
  • (19) "This place lives and breathes stories," says Plater.
  • (20) The point prevalence of white fingers was 42% for the plater category currently exposed with an odds ratio of 85.

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