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/lˈaɪnər/ Listen

noun

Liner n.

One who lines, as, a liner of shoes or clothing.

An airplane or ship belonging to a transportation company; also, A line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.

(Mach.) A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc.; a shim.

A lining (2). Specifically: (Steam Engine) A lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.

A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.

(Baseball) A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground; also called line drive; as, he hit a sharp liner to right.

A protective envelope for a phonograph record or other object.

A lining; as, a removable coat liner.

Same as eyeliner.

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Etymology of 'Liner'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Liner" Quotes from Famous Books

... passing a corporation-owned oil tanker, greasy and uninteresting. Yesterday we passed several scheduled freighters, carrying fixed cargoes to fixed ports; the day before a passenger liner, sailing by the clock, in Naples or New York on Friday, pouring out its never-ending tide of those going ...

— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt

... o'clock on the morning of the 5th of November, 1900, those of the passengers and crew of the American liner St. Louis who happened, whether from causes of duty or of their own pleasure, to be on deck, had a very strange—in fact a ...

— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith

... great liner was warped securely alongside the great landing stage, while the whistle shrieked a noisy greeting. Passengers hurried from one group to another, shaking hands in a final farewell with shipboard acquaintances whom they had come to know so well in so short a time. Porters hurried past, laden ...

— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield

... country to nose about in search of a job, because there doesn't seem what you might call a general demand for my services in England. Directly I was demobbed, the family started talking about the Land of Opportunity and shot me on to a liner. The idea was that I might get hold ...

— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse

... seemed to file by between its two rows of houses. Soon the street was filled with bearskin caps worn by ruddy, green-eyed, flat-nosed persons. It was a Russian invasion. There had just anchored in the harbor a transatlantic liner that was bearing this cargo of human flesh to America. They scattered throughout the place; they crowded the cafes and the shops, and under their invading wave they blotted out the normal population of Gibraltar. At two o'clock it had resumed its regular aspect and there reappeared ...

— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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