liner

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪnɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

From line (verb) +‎ -er.

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.

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".

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

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.

• airliner
• hook-and-liner

• Cylinder liners on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -relin

liner m (plural liners)

1. liner (boat)
2. eye-liner

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

liner f

1. indefinite plural of line

liner m (plural lineres)

1. liner