liner

See also: Liner and LINER

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪnɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From line (verb) +‎ -er.

Noun

liner (plural liners)

1. Someone who fits a lining to something.

   a liner of shoes

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 41:

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

2. A removable cover or lining.

   I threw out the trash can liner.

   • 1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1991, →ISBN, page 3:

     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.

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

   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 similar lining for cylinders of internal-combustion engines (see "Further reading").
6. A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
7. A formal no show sock.
8. A pantyliner.

Derived terms

• bin liner
• bottom liner
• hard-liner
• liner lock
• liner notes
• lip liner
• one-liner
• panty liner
• poncho liner
• pond liner
• section liner
• soft-liner
• trainer liner
• zip liner
• zip-liner

 

Verb

liner (third-person singular simple present liners, present participle linering, simple past and past participle linered)

1. To fit a cylinder liner.
   • 1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 444:

     They have a common chassis, except that the cylinders, 20 in. diameter in the Class "7", are linered down to 19½ in. in the Class "6".

Etymology 2

From line (noun) +‎ -er (relational suffix) or -er (measurement suffix) (sense 5).

Noun

liner (plural liners)

1. A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
   • 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

     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.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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
• cruise liner
• jetliner
• ocean liner
• passenger liner

 

Translations

large passenger carrying ship

• Bulgarian: лайнер (bg) m (lajner)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郵船／邮船 (zh) (yóuchuán)

• Dutch: lijnschip n, pakketboot (nl) m or f, oceaanstomer (nl) m, passagiersschip (nl) n, lijnboot (nl) m or f (informal or referring to river transport)
• 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)

• Dutch: linieschip n
• 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)
• Dutch: voering (nl) f
• Spanish: forro (es) m
• Turkish: astar (tr)

See also

• airliner
• hook-and-liner

Further reading

• Cylinder liners on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -relin

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

liner f

1. indefinite plural of line

Spanish

Noun

liner m (plural lineres)

1. liner