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Meanings of liner in English

Catalan
folre

A piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment.

        folre
        Portuguese
        transatlântico
        Catalan
        transoceànic

        A large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule)

              transatlântico

              (Baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter.

                    Usage of liner in English
                    1
                    However, block liner trains, which are booked by individual companies, will continue.
                    The Irish Times
                    2
                    The Island Princess liner was undergoing sea trials off the Italian coast.
                    The Irish Times
                    3
                    The story of the ocean liner has been told hundreds of times.
                    Wired
                    4
                    The opposition says the vote was rigged to secure hard-liner Ahmadinejad's re-election.
                    Reuters
                    5
                    The Company is engaged in chartering its vessels to various liner companies.
                    Reuters
                    6
                    The liner was barely twenty miles away when Hoddan fired his rockets.
                    The Pirates of Ersatz
                    7
                    Forget the Eddie Jones one-liner but do focus on his bottom line.
                    The Irish Times
                    8
                    The largest liner was called Hercules, and the smallest schooner The Flea.
                    The Lilac Fairy Book
                    9
                    It was just the second marker by a Montreal blue-liner this season.
                    Reuters
                    10
                    Implant manufacturers offer 1-mm liner increments to fine-tune ligament tension and balance.
                    Pubmed
                    11
                    But we must be back aboard the space liner in two hours.
                    A Grandpa's Notebook / Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Enc...
                    12
                    The Otranto, only an armed liner, had disappeared early in the fight.
                    History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
                    13
                    In minutes the captured liner, loaded down again, lifted toward the stars.
                    The Pirates of Ersatz
                    14
                    A fourth destroyer of ours got the U-boat which sank the liner.
                    The U-boat hunters
                    15
                    The 27year-old Indian national worked as a chef on board the liner.
                    The Irish Times
                    16
                    We have seen an atlantic liner tied in with a bobby pin.
                    The new yorker
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                    Translations for liner
                    Portuguese
                    transatlântico
                    Liner through the time
                    Liner across language varieties
                    Ireland
                    Common
                    New Zealand
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Common
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