liner
/ˈlaɪnɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
noun
A pantyliner.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "liner notes"
- "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"."
Etymology
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.