| 单词 | calibrate |
| 释义 | calibrate (once / 11891 pages) 1v 2v The word calibrate means making precise measurement. For example, you might want to calibrate your bathroom scale now and then to be sure it’s adjusted for exact weight. Or calibrate it to read five pounds light. We won't tell. To find the origin of calibrate, we must look at its root, caliber, which appeared in the late 15th Century Middle French as calibre, meaning "a degree of importance." Linguists trace that word to an Arabic beginning, the word qalib, which referred to a mold for making bullets. That meaning seems to have carried over to our word, the verb calibrate, which first meant to measure the range of a projectile such as a bullet or shell. WORD FAMILYcalibrate: calibrated, calibrates, calibrating, calibration+/caliber: calibers, calibrate/calibration: calibrations USAGE EXAMPLESThat modesty is crucial to the poetry of “Paterson,” as is the precisely calibrated internal meter of Jarmusch’s screenplay. Los Angeles Times(Dec 27, 2016) The trade-off is that the amount of hassle is precisely calibrated to just how much you are willing to pay. New York Times(Apr 23, 2016) Tough U.S. steps against China would likely prompt calibrated retaliatory moves by Beijing, economists and foreign trade analysts said. Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1v make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring calibrate an instrument Syn|Hyper fine-tune, graduate adjust, correct, set alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard 2v mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units 2he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale Hyper label, mark, tag attach a tag or label to v measure the caliber of calibrate a gun Hyper measure, measure out, mensurate determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of |
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