liner
pronunciation
How to pronounce liner in British English:
UK [ˈlaɪnə(r)]
How to pronounce liner in American English:
US [ˈlaɪnər]
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- Noun:
- (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter
- a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment
- a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule)
Word Origin
- liner
- liner: see line
- liner (n.1)
- "ship belonging to a shipping line," 1838, from line (n.) on notion of a succession of ships plying between ports along regular "lines." Line in this sense first attested 1786 in reference to stagecoaches. Cosmetics sense first recorded 1926, short for eye-liner. The type of baseball hit was so called from 1874 (line drive attested from 1899).
- liner (n.2)
- "person who fits a lining to," 1610s, agent noun from line (v.1). Meaning "thing serving as a lining" is from 1869. Liner notes in a record album are attested from 1953.
Example
- 1. Pinto said that after reboarding their launch , the pirates fired at the liner for another 10 minutes .
- 2. The designers of the good ship euro wanted to create thegreatest liner of the age .
- 3. It suggested , in size and silhouette , a cruise liner more than a cargo vessel .
- 4. Then he would take an air liner to another city for travel .
- 5. Dean , her mother , and brother were placed in lifeboat 10 and were among the first off the liner out of the 706 passengers and crew who escaped .