LINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liner mean? 

• LINER (noun)
  The noun LINER has 4 senses:

1. (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter

2. a protective covering that protects an inside surface

3. a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment

4. a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule)

  Familiarity information: LINER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

line drive; liner

Context example:

the batter hit a liner to the shortstop

Hypernyms ("liner" is a kind of...):

fly; fly ball ((baseball) a hit that flies up in the air)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A protective covering that protects an inside surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

liner; lining

Hypernyms ("liner" is a kind of...):

protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liner"):

brake lining (the lining on the brake shoes that comes in contact with the brake drum)

bushing; cylindrical lining (a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction)

facing (a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening)

furnace lining; refractory (lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

liner; lining

Hypernyms ("liner" is a kind of...):

piece of cloth; piece of material (a separate part consisting of fabric)

Holonyms ("liner" is a part of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Derivation:

line (cover the interior of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

liner; ocean liner

Hypernyms ("liner" is a kind of...):

passenger ship (a ship built to carry passengers)

Meronyms (parts of "liner"):

cabin (small room on a ship or boat where people sleep)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liner"):

cabin liner (a liner with cabins for passengers)

cargo liner (a liner that carries cargo)

cruise liner; cruise ship (a passenger ship used commercially for pleasure cruises)

express luxury liner; luxury liner (a liner equipped for sumptuous living)

 Context examples 

Now, as I looked up at the same cliffs, I saw discs of light in every direction, ruddy, clearly-defined patches, like the port-holes of a liner in the darkness.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Out of my experience with stewards on the Atlantic liners at the end of the voyage, I could have sworn he was waiting for his tip.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A receptacle with a body constructed of film, woven plastic, woven fabric, paper or combination thereof, together with any appropriate service equipment and handling devices, and if necessary, an inner coating or liner.

(Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container, NCI Thesaurus)

A proprietary light-cured glass ionomer dental liner material.

(Fuji Lining LC, NCI Thesaurus)

The hard outer coat with its undercoat liner protects the dog from brambles, and bad weather.

(Lakeland Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

A proprietary eugenol and zinc oxide dental liner.

(Cavitec, NCI Thesaurus)

Three shining mackintoshed figures are walking down the quay, making for the gang-plank of the great liner from which the blue-peter is flying.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had seen the mechanism of the primitive fighting beast, and I was as strongly impressed as if I had seen the engines of a great battleship or Atlantic liner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I am writing these last lines in the saloon of the Booth liner Francisca, and they will go back by the pilot to the keeping of Mr. McArdle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The only other evidence which I can adduce is from the log of the SS. Friesland, a Dutch-American liner, which asserts that at nine next morning, Start Point being at the time ten miles upon their starboard quarter, they were passed by something between a flying goat and a monstrous bat, which was heading at a prodigious pace south and west.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)