liner

Someone who fits a lining to something.

Noun

  1. Someone who fits a lining to something.
    • 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. - 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 41:
  2. A removable cover or lining.
    • 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. - 1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.:...
  3. The pamphlet supplied in the box with an audiovisual tape or disc, etc.
    • 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.

Origin

Etymology tree Middle French lignerbor. English line Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English liner From line (verb) + -er.

Forms

liners

Derived

bedliner bin liner bottom liner diaper liner eyeliner hard-liner headliner interliner linerboard liner card linerless liner lock liner notes lip liner lipliner nappy liner one-liner panty liner poncho liner pond liner section liner soft-liner trainer liner underliner

Noun Entry 2

  1. A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
    • 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. - 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel...
    • 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...
  2. A ship of the line.
  3. A line drive.
    • The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.
  4. A basic salesperson.
  5. Something with a specified number of lines.
    • the following three-liner by an unknown poet - 2005, G. J. H. Van Gelder, Close Relationships, page 130:
  6. A person born in a certain year (XX liner); a person who belongs to a certain line.
    • 94 liner
  7. Ellipsis of penny-a-liner.

Origin

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

Forms

liners

Related

airliner hook-and-liner

Derived

binliner blueliner cargo liner commuterliner cruise liner feederliner interliner jetliner linerless ocean liner passenger liner starliner steamliner superliner

Verb

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

Forms

liners linering linered