liner

liner

See also: Liner and LINER

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪnə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

line +‎ -er (from the verb).

Noun

liner (plural liners)

1. Someone who fits a lining to something.

   a liner of shoes

   • 1973, A good liner has a pretty shrewd idea of the value of the painting he is treating and usually charges accordingly. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 41)
2. A removable cover or lining

   I threw out the trash can liner.

3. The pamphlet which is contained inside an album of music or movie

   Does it have the lyrics in the liner notes?

4. 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.
5. A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
6. A formal no show sock.

Derived terms

• pond liner
• section liner

Etymology 2

line +‎ -er (from the noun).

Noun

liner (plural liners)

1. A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:

     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.

2. (nautical) A ship of the line.
3. (baseball) A line drive.

   The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.

4. (marketing, slang) A basic salesperson.
5. (in combination) Something with a specified number of lines.
   • 2005, G. J. H. Van Gelder, Close Relationships (page 130)

     the following three-liner by an unknown poet

6. (South Korean idol fandom) person born in a certain year (XX liner); person who belongs to a certain line

   94 liner

7. Short for penny-a-liner.

Derived terms

• cargo liner
• ocean liner
• one-liner

Translations

large passenger carrying ship

Bulgarian: лайнер (bg) m (lajner) Chinese: Mandarin: 郵船／邮船 (zh) (yóuchuán) Finnish: matkustajalaiva (fi) Irish: línéar m Japanese: ライナー (ja) (rainā) Russian: ла́йнер (ru) m (lájner) Spanish: transatlántico (es) m Swedish: linjefartyg n

ship of the line

Chinese: Mandarin: 班輪／班轮 (zh) (bānlún) Romanian: navă de linie f Russian: ре́йсовый парохо́д m (réjsovyj paroxód) Spanish: barco de línea m

liner, lining: inside covering (i.e. a jacket liner)

Bulgarian: обшивка (bg) f (obšivka), подплата (bg) f (podplata) Spanish: forro (es) m Turkish: astar (tr)

See also

• airliner

Anagrams

• -relin

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French

Noun

liner m (plural liners)

1. liner (boat)
2. eye-liner

Further reading

• “liner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

liner f

1. indefinite plural of line

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Spanish

Noun

liner m (plural lineres)

1. liner