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Calibre

Definitions: Calibre

Calibre

Noun

1. A degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber".

2. Diameter of a tube or gun barrel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "calibre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Calibre

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Calibre [kal'i-ber]. A mind of no calibre: of no capacity. A mind of great calibre: of large capacity. Calibre is the bore of a gun, and, figuratively, the bore or compass of one's intelligence.
"The enemy had generally new arms ... of uniform caliber."- Grant: Memoirs, vol. i. chap. xxxix. p. 572.
"We measure men's calibre by the broadest circle of achievements."- Chapin: Lessons of Faith, p. 16. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Calibre

Synonyms: bore (n), caliber (n), quality (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Calibre

English words defined with "calibre": .22 calibre, .38 calibre, .45 calibre. (references)
Specialty definitions using "calibre": Morris tubevasoactive, vasodilatation. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Calibre" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (bore, caliber, calibrates, calibre, feeler, Gage, gauge, grade, standard), Portuguese (bore, caliber, calibre, Gage, gauge, range), Spanish (bore, caliber, calibers, calibre, Gage, gauge, profile, size).

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Modern Usage: Calibre

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Calibre 38 (1967)

Big Calibre (1935)

Forty-Five Calibre Echo (1932)

Calibre 45 (1924)

El Calibre de la venganza (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Calibre

DomainTitle

Books

  • Airway Calibre in Health and Disease: The Pathophysiology of Upper and Lower Airway Narrowing (reference)

  • Paris Kanonen-The Paris Guns (Wilhelmgeschutze and Project Harp: The Application of Major Calibre Guns to Atmospheric and Space Research) (reference)

  • Tir au revolver et au pistolet en 10 leons : [achat, calibre, clubs, faire ses munitions] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Calibre

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The armament of these defences shall not exceed, as regards the number and calibre of guns, those in position at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Calibre

"Calibre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Calibre" is used about 374 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%37414,574

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Calibre

Expressions using "calibre": .22 calibre .38 calibre .45 calibre. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "calibre": high-calibre, large-calibre, medium-calibre, small-calibre.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Calibre

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

calibre

147

calibre press

71

calibre soul

10

12 calibre

8

calibre system

5

calibre chuck

5

calibre wood

5

22 calibre

4

50 calibre

3

calibre digital

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Calibre

Language Translations for "calibre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

cilësi (caliber, capacity, class, degree, fabric, merit, qualification, quality, sort, texture), vlerë (amount, asset, avail, caliber, denomination, feck, merit, price, purchase, quality, rate, valor, valour, value, worth), shkallë (accommodation ladder, caliber, degree, flight, gauge, gradations, grade, ladder, level, measure, notch, peg, phase, pitch, point, rate, rating, remove, scale, stadium, stair, staircase, stairway), peshë (caliber, Dolly, heft, load, meterage, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, strain, weight, weightiness), kalibër (bore, caliber, gauge, grade, groove, size), diametër i brendshëm (caliber). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عيار قطر جسم مستدير (caliber), ‏عيار (bore, caliber, gauge, standard), ‏صاحب مكانة (caliber), ‏الكاليبية مادة هلامية (caliber), ‏القطر الداخلي (caliber). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разряд, калибър (bore, caliber, gauge, size), мащаб (gauge, measure, scale). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

口径 (Caliber). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ráže (caliber), kalibr (bore, Gage, gauge, stamp), formát (format, size, stature). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

mal (absurd, former, gauge, model, pattern, ridiculous, template, templet), kaliber (calipers, gage, gauge, roller gauge, template, templet, threadgage), boring (bore, bore hole, boring, conduit, drill hole, hole, well). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kalibro. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

väljyys (looseness), kaliberi. (various references)

   

French

  

calibre (caliber, calibrates, caliper). (various references)

   

German

  

kaliber (caliber, calibrator, caliper, Gage, gauge). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διαμέτρημα (bore, caliber, gage, gauge, size). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מ"י" (gauge, measurable, meter, metre), שעור קומ" (caliber, importance, stature), קליבר (caliber), קוטר (caliber, diameter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kaliber (bore, caliber, gage, gauge, pass, tapered), súly (bob, burden, caliber, gravity, heft, load, onus, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, purport, weight), rátermettség (aptitude, caliber, dower, efficiency, faculty, gift, suitability), képesség (ability, absorptivity, accomplishment, attainments, caliber, capability, capacity, dower, facility, faculty, genious, gift, reach, talent), furat (bore, borehole, caliber, mortice, mortise), formátum (caliber, format, size, stature), belső átmérő (bore, caliber, inside diameter), űrméret (caliber). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

ukuran senjata api, ukuran bedil, ukuran (dimension, gauge, measure, norm, size), kaliber. (various references)

   

Italian

  

calibro (bore, caliber, calipers, Gage, gauge, roller gauge, size, template). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

口径 (aperture, bore). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"うけい (aperture, background, bore, ecliptic longitude, filial piety, scene, setting, spectacle, successor, the essential point). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

구경 (Caliber). (various references)

   

Manx

  

towse (capacity, divine law, dose, gauge, mark off, size, size up, sum up, summing up, time, tit, tit of gold, value, weigh, weigh out; rating). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

kaliber. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alibrecay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

calibre (bore, caliber, calipers, cylinder bore, Gage, gauge, range, roller gauge, size, template, templet). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

calibru (bore, caliber, compass, diameter, gauge, jig, pass, pattern, size, sort), valoare (acception, account, amount, assessment, caliber, consequence, cost, denomination, importance, interest, merit, price, purchase, quality, relief, time value, use, value, virtue, weight, worth). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

калибр (caliber, calliper, ga, gauge, groove, pass, pattern). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kalibar (caliber, gauge, line gauge). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

calibre (aesthesiometer, bore, caliber, calibers, calliper, compass, compasses, gage, gauge, pair of compasses, profile, saw blade thickness, size, template, templet). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kaliber (bore, caliber, gauge). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, caliber, capability, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, faculty, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), kalibre (bore, caliber, Gage, gauge, jig), çap (bore, caliber, diameter). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

якість (affections, caliber, grade, property, quality, tenor, texture, virtue), розмір (admeasurement, bigness, caliber, format, metre, proportions, rate, scale, size, verse), розмах (area, caliber, dimension, reach, spread, swing), калібр (caliber, calipers, callipers, gauge, size, template), внутрішній діаметр (bore diameter, caliber), масштаб (area, caliber, gauge, measure, scale, scope, zodiac), достоїнство (caliber, desert, merit, meritoriousness, plus). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cỡ (gauge), thứ (affair, order, secondary, sort, stuff, thing, thingamy, thingumajig, thingumbob, thingummy), tính chất (cast, make-up), năng lực (ability, bump, competence, depth, quality), hạng (category, denomination, grade, kind, run, species, standard). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Calibre

Derivations

Words beginning with "calibre": calibred, calibres. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Calibre

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caliber.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-r"

-1 letter: bailer, caribe, eclair, lacier, librae.

-2 letters: abler, acerb, areic, ariel, baler, baric, birle, blare, blear, brace, brail, caber, cable, carle, ceiba, ceria, clear, erica, ileac, lacer, liber, libra, rabic, relic.

-3 letters: able, abri, acre, alec, aril, bail, bale, bare, bear, bice, bier, bile, birl, blae, brae, brie, carb, care, carl, ceil, cire, crab, crib, earl, ilea, lace, laic, lair, lari, lear, liar, lice, lier, lira, lire, race, rail, rale, real, rial, rice, riel, rile.

-4 letters: ace, ail, air, alb, ale, arb, arc, are, bal, bar, bel, bra, cab, car, cel, ear, era, ice, ire, lab, lac, lar, lea, lei, lib, lie, reb, rec, rei, ria, rib.

-5 letters: ab, ae, ai, al, ar, ba, be, bi, el, er, la, li, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-r"
 

+1 letter: albicore, barbicel, braciole, breccial, cabriole, calibers, calibred, calibres.

 

+2 letters: albicores, algebraic, bacterial, barbicels, bicameral, bracioles, bricolage, cabrioles, cabriolet, calibrate, incurable, irascible, lubricate.

 

+3 letters: abacterial, acquirable, amerciable, ascribable, backslider, becrawling, birthplace, branchline, bricklayer, bricolages, brilliance, cabriolets, calibrated, calibrates, charitable, clabbering, clambering, clofibrate, corbiculae, cranesbill, creditable, creditably, eradicable, extricable, herbicidal, incurables, linebacker, lubricated, lubricates, orbiculate, predicable, receivable, replicable, republican, scrabblier, silverback.

 

+4 letters: acerbically, aerobically, appreciable, appreciably, articulable, backsliders, bacterially, ballcarrier, beclamoring, berascaling, bimolecular, biometrical, birthplaces, blackbirded, blackbirder, blacklister, blackmailer, bleacherite, branchlines, bricklayers, brilliances, celebrating, celebration, certifiable, certifiably, chamberlain, charbroiled, charbroiler, cherishable, clofibrates, confirmable, cranesbills, depreciable, describable, discardable, discernable, embracingly, exercisable, hibernacula, increasable, inscrutable, intractable, irradicable, irrecusable, irrecusably, irrevocable, irrevocably, linebackers, lubricative, meroblastic, obstetrical, perceivable, perceivably, practicable, prebiblical, predicables, predictable, predictably, problematic, rebalancing, recalibrate, receivables, reclaimable, rectifiable, relubricate, republicans, scrabbliest, serviceable, serviceably, silverbacks, subliteracy, trafficable, verbalistic.

 

+5 letters: accreditable, bactericidal, bacteriology, ballcarriers, bicameralism, biomolecular, blackberries, blackbirders, blacklisters, blackmailers, bleacherites, borosilicate, brilliancies, celebrations, chamberlains, charbroilers, cherubically, childbearing, circulatable, considerable, considerably, contractible, coralberries, criticizable, curabilities, curveballing, cybernetical, decipherable, descrambling, discoverable, distractable, distractible, elucubrating, elucubration, herbicidally, hibernaculum, hyperbolical, incomparable, incorporable, ineradicable, ineradicably, inextricable, inextricably, liberalistic, microbalance, microwavable, nonbacterial, plebiscitary, precipitable, problematics, recalibrated, recalibrates, recognizable, recognizably, reconcilable, relubricated, relubricates, ribonuclease, rockabillies, secobarbital, tabernacling, traceability, uncalibrated, uncharitable, vocabularies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Calibre


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 6C 69 62 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    .-..    ..    -...    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100010 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#98 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006C 0069 0062 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37677875688471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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