Liner

/ˈlaɪnɚ/ · noun

Meaning

Someone who fits a lining to something..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who fits a lining to something.
2. A removable cover or lining.
3. The pamphlet supplied in the box with an audiovisual tape or disc, etc.
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.

Example Sentences

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

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".

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.

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Word Forms

• liners
• linering
• linered

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