Meaning of Liner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. low ionization nuclear emission line region
   initialism
2. Someone who fits a lining to something.
3. A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
4. A surname.
5. A removable cover or lining.
6. A ship of the line.
7. The pamphlet supplied in the box with an audiovisual tape or disc, etc.
8. A line drive.
9. A lining within the cylinder of a steam engine, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
10. A basic salesperson.
    slang
11. A similar lining for cylinders of internal-combustion engines (see "Further reading").
12. Something with a specified number of lines.
    in-compounds
13. A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
14. A person born in a certain year (XX liner); a person who belongs to a certain line.
15. A formal no-show sock.
16. Ellipsis of penny-a-liner.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
17. A pantyliner.

Equivalents

Examples

“a liner of shoes”

“A good liner has a pretty shrewd idea of the value of the painting he is treating and usually charges accordingly.”

“I threw out the trash can liner.”

“Lane Coutell, in a Burberry raincoat that apparently had a wool liner buttoned into it, was one of the six or seven boys out on the open platform.”

“liner notes”

“With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.”

“He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.”

“The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.”

“the following three-liner by an unknown poet”

“94 liner”

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