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calibre

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cal·i·bre  (kl-br)
n. Chiefly British
Variant of caliber.

calibre or US caliber [kal-lib-ber]
Noun
1. a person's ability or worth: a poet of Wordsworth's calibre
2. the diameter of the bore of a gun or of a shell or bullet [Arabic qālib shoemaker's last, mould]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.calibre - a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"
high quality, superiority - the quality of being superior
low quality, inferiority - an inferior quality
degree, level, grade - a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree"
2.calibre - diameter of a tube or gun barrel
diam, diameter - the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference

calibre U.S. caliber
Translations
Spanish calibre, caliber (US) [ˈkælɪbəʳ] ncalibre m
French calibre (US), caliber [ˈkælɪbəʳ] ncalibre m
German calibre (US) caliber [ˈkælɪbəʳ] nKaliber nt;
(of person) → Format nt

Italian calibre (US), caliber [ˈkælɪbəʳ] ncalibro

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I see no reason to doubt its average power, mademoiselle, but really I scarcely know her, and have not had time to study the calibre of her capacity.
But most astonishing was the quantity of ammunition-cartridges for Lee-Metfords, for Winchesters and Marlins, for revolvers from thirty-two calibre to forty-five, shot- gun cartridges, Joan's two boxes of thirty-eight, cartridges of prodigious bore for the ancient Sniders of Malaita, flasks of black powder, sticks of dynamite, yards of fuse, and boxes of detonators.
Pocket-handkerchiefs of OUR calibre would be thought decidedly aristocratic; and aristocracy in Paris, just at that moment, was almost in as bad odor as it is in America, where it ranks as an eighth deadly sin, though no one seems to know precisely what it means.
 
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