" calibrate "

 [ "calibrate" ]

1: phrase a criticism in a way that keeps you out of trouble

  * e.g.,  ... President Obama wishes he had "calibrated" his criticism of the Cambridge Police Department, so that he hadn't come under so much heat for the way he phrased it originally. 

 [ "calibrate" ]

1: To find calibre the (caliber) of; correlate readings of (instrument etc) with a standard or commonly accepted value.

  * e.g.,  ... I calibrated my HF reciever with the 10.0000 MHz WWV/WWVB frequency standard. 

 [ "calibrate" ]

1: to be hott;to cause an orgasm//sexual eruption

  * e.g.,  ... dayum, that picture calibrates me to a whole new level 

 [ "calibrate" ]

1: To change something.

  * e.g.,  ... I calibrated my controller....NERP! 

 [ "Calibrations" ]

1: Either an activity that must be done constantly, or something you bring up when you want to subtly tell someone to go fuck themselves.

  * e.g.,  ... Shepard: "Hey Garrus, got a minute?" 

 [ "calibration" ]

1:  The proccess of data acquisition (obtained by comparison against standards) able to anticipate the behavior of someting.

  * e.g.,  ... Adjustment is not calibration. When we adjust something we change its behavior (usually to move it closer to standards aiming a better performance); when we calibrate we just understand its behavior so that we can compensate or even adjust it. 

 [ "calibration" ]

2:  The data so obtained.

 [ "calibration" ]

3:  The final report or documentation showing such data.

 [ "calibration" ]

4:  The stage in which someting is regarding the level of its calibration knoledge.

 [ "calibre" ]

1: calibre = drum'n'bass god

  * e.g.,  ... calibre feat. mc fats - drop it down 

 [ "calibrated" ]

1: Means to get high. Used mostly with the word 'get' in front of it.

  * e.g.,  ... 'Let's get calibrated' 

 [ "calibration" ]

1: 1) The process of comparing an instrument's output signal with reality. Instruments that measure solar energy tend to "drift", that is, their output signals do not mean the same thing from one time period to another. Because of this, they are periodically (annually or semi-annually) re-calibrated against more reliable instruments.

  * e.g.,  ... This radio needs some calibration. 

 [ "calibration" ]

2: 2) Adjusting a measuring instrument to make it accurate. The set of operations which establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between values indicated by a measuring instrument or measuring system and the corresponding values of a quantity realized by a reference standard.

 [ "calibration" ]

3: 3) The act of adjusting the color of one device relative to another, such as a monitor to a printer, or a scanner to a film recorder. Or, it may be the process of adjusting the color of one device to some established standard.

 [ "Calibrated" ]

1: Another way of describing someone who is buff, ripped or rather muscular. Great when associated with guns

  * e.g.,  ... Mate, your guns are totally calibrated! You want to come to the gym with me and get calibrated?