Definitions for liner

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liner lin·er

Spelling: [lahy-ner]

IPA: /ˈlaɪ nər/

Liner is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in liner (eilnr).

Definitions for liner

noun

1. a ship or airplane operated by a transportation or conveyance company.
2. eyeliner.
3. Baseball. line drive.
4. a person or thing that traces by or marks with lines.
5. ship of the line.
6. something serving as a lining.
7. a protective covering, usually of cardboard, for a phonograph record; album; jacket.
8. a person who fits or provides linings.

Origin of liner

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at line¹, -er¹

Examples for liner

Famously, the Dunedin Star, a British liner, crashed on these shores in 1942.

But as for the liner, it continued with its emphatic reiteration.

They were delightful days, for the Laconia is a Paris hotel disguised as a liner.

While other jazz cats describe their music in liner notes, Carey relies on a comic strip.

That was the liner, and it had been saying the same thing for two nights and two days.

Pick up records from that time and chances are Hentoff wrote the liner notes.

But the liner notes, hand-scrawled by Paul, song by song, are something special.

He wrote in the liner notes, “The last few years prove to me we live in an age of miracles.”

Already the liner was far away, out of their grasp, even had they desired to return.

Minute after minute passed, but there was no response from the other liner.