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lining

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈlaɪnɪŋ//

A covering for the inside surface of something.

noun

  1. 1

    A covering for the inside surface of something.

    A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

    The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.

    As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

  2. 2

    The material used for such a covering.

  3. 3

    The act of attaching such a covering.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of linepresent participle and gerund of line

Forms

plural
linings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).