liner
nomverbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- //ˈlaɪnɚ//
Someone who fits a lining to something.
nom
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Étymologie
Etymology tree English line Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios 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.
verbe
- 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".
nom
- 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.
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
A ship of the line.
- 3
A line drive.
The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.
- 4
argotA basic salesperson.
- 5
Something with a specified number of lines.
the following three-liner by an unknown poet
- 6
A person born in a certain year (XX liner); a person who belongs to a certain line.
94 liner
- 7
Variante de penny-a-linerEllipsis of penny-a-liner.
Étymologie
From line (noun) + -er (relational suffix) or -er (measurement suffix) (sense 5).
Formes
- pluriel
- liners
- passé
- linered
- participe passé
- linered
- participe présent
- linering
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- liners