单词	caliber
释义	calibercal‧i‧ber /ˈkæləbə $ -ər/ noun [countable, uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINcaliber Origin: 1500-1600 French calibre, from Old Italian calibro, from Arabic qalib ‘block on which shoes are made’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES He's a doctor of the highest caliber. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS It was the caliber of work that mattered to Penelope. Raven Arms was born, specializing in a. 25 caliber gun George Jennings designed. The man fired a shot from a small caliber handgun while speaking to officers through the closed bedroom door, he said. The wounds were caused by a. 22 caliber weapon fired from behind the victims, who were kneeling. There were women murder writers that can tell from the smoke the caliber pistol used. Trevor is the rarest of writers who can actually produce both novels and stories of equal caliber. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► high · This corroborated his own impression that it was of very high caliber indeed, of close to first rank. the American spelling of calibre
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