Definitions of calender

1. press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets; as of paper or cloth

2. a machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers

3. press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets; " calender paper"

4. 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.

5. To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.

6. One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.

7. A machine containing heated rollers for smoothing and glazing paper or cloth.

8. To press in a smoothing machine.

9. ( a corruption of CYLINDER) A press consisting of two rollers for smoothing and dressing cloth: a person who calenders, property a calendrer.

10. To dress in a calender.

11. A machine for giving to cloth, paper, etc., a gloss by pressing between rollers.

12. A machine consisting of two rollers for pressing cloth smooth and glossy; a person who calenders.

13. To press in a calendar.

14. A press, consisting of heated rollers, between which cloths are passed to finish them off.

15. To press between heated rollers.