calendar

Pluralcalendars

Formscalendars, calendaring, calendared

1. 1
   chart of datesnouncountable

   A document that shows the dates and other information about time, used for finding out what the date is.

   He circled the date of the exam on the calendar above his desk.

   The bank gives out free calendars to its customers every December.

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   appointment booknounUScountable

   A book in which a person keeps track of their appointments and engagements.

   My calendar is full until Thursday, but I could meet you Friday morning.

   His assistant penciled the meeting into his calendar for ten o'clock.

   Similardiary, schedule, planner, datebook

   Note

   American English keeps appointments in a calendar; British English keeps them in a diary, or more fully an appointment diary. So a lunch goes in your calendar on one side of the Atlantic and in your diary on the other, and an American's full calendar is a British speaker's full diary.

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   time systemnouncountable

   Any system for dividing time into days, weeks, months, and years.

   Under the Julian calendar, the year ran slightly longer than the solar year, so the dates slowly drifted.

   The Islamic calendar follows the moon, so Ramadan comes about eleven days earlier each year.

   Note

   The name begins with a Roman announcement: kalendae, the first day of the month, comes from calō, "to call out solemnly", because the sighting of the new moon was called aloud. Latin calendarium, built on it, meant an account book, and it reached English through Old French calendier and Middle English kalender. In this sense systems are counted and named: the Gregorian, Jewish and Islamic calendars.

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   planned eventsnouncountable

   A list of events that are planned to take place, such as a club's activities for the year.

   The theater's fall calendar includes two new plays and a holiday concert.

   With six tournaments in eight weeks, the team's calendar leaves little room for rest.

   Similarschedule, program, lineup

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   nouncountable

   An orderly list or schedule of people, things, or events, such as the bills before a legislature or the cases set for trial.

   The House clerk posted the calendar of bills awaiting a floor vote.

   Historians still rely on the calendar of the abbey's charters compiled a century ago.

   Similardocket, schedule, list, register

   Note

   Institutions keep their business in calendars of this kind: a legislature has a calendar of bills awaiting action, and a court a calendar of causes arranged for trial. Francis Bacon stretched the word in his Essayes (1625), advising rulers to know the "Kalenders of Tempests in State", the times when unrest runs highest, just as natural storms are greatest about the equinoxes.

6. 6
   add to scheduleverbtransitive

   To enter something in a calendar, or to record it in a register.

   Please calendar the board meeting for the second Tuesday of each month.

   The office manager calendars every deadline as soon as a contract is signed.

   Similarschedule, log, record

   Note

   Richard Hooker used the verb between 1594 and 1597, observing that people were more apt to kalender saints' days than sinners', and he spelled it with the K of Middle English kalender. It always takes an object: Hooker's was a saint's day, where a modern office calendars a board meeting.

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   set court dateverbtransitive

   To set the date of a court proceeding, which a judge usually does at a calendar call.

   The judge declined to calendar the trial until both sides had finished discovery.

   The magistrate calendared the suppression hearing for the first week of March.

   Similarschedule, docket

   Note

   The verb is tied to the court's list of pending cases: at a calendar call a judge works through that list and assigns dates. A judge can calendar a hearing on pretrial motions for a given week yet decline to calendar the trial itself on a specific date. The forms keep a single r: calendared, calendaring.

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