liner

noun15

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. — 1947
2. •
   A removable cover or lining.

   • I threw out the trash can liner.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   A similar lining for cylinders of internal-combustion engines (see "Further reading").
5. •
   A formal no-show sock.
6. •
   A pantyliner.
7. •
   The pamphlet supplied in the box with an audiovisual tape or disc, etc.

   • liner notes
8. •
   A line drive.

   • The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.
9. •
   [in compounds] Something with a specified number of lines.
10. •
    A person born in a certain year (XX liner); a person who belongs to a certain line.
11. •
    Someone who fits a lining to something.

    • a liner of shoes
12. •
    A ship of the line.
13. •
    (slang) A basic salesperson.
14. •
    A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
15. •
    Ellipsis of penny-a-liner.

verb1

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". — 1951

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of low ionization nuclear emission line region