CALIBER


Meaning of CALIBER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

This corroborated his own impression that it was of very high caliber indeed, of close to first rank.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He's a doctor of the highest caliber .

EXAMPLES FROM 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 .

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