Liner

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

8 more languages

العربيةباخرة الركّاببطانة

Suomiirtovuorilainerimatkustajalaivarajausväri+ 1 more

日本語ライナー

Kurdîastar

Nederlandslijnbootlijnschiplinieschipoceaanstomerpakketbootpassagiersschipvoering+ 4 more

Polskiliniowiecokładzinapodszewkawkładkawyściółka+ 2 more

Svenskalinjefartyg

Türkçeastar

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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