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Feeder vs Liner - What's the difference?

feeder | liner |

As nouns the difference between feeder and liner

is that feeder is that which feeds while liner is someone who fits a lining to something.

feeder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which feeds.
  • That which is used to feed.
  • a bird feeder
  • A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
  • A branch line of a railway
  • A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
  • The pitcher.
  • (video games, derogatory) A player who is killed by the opposing player or team more than once through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
  • Stop feeding! You feeder .
  • The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
  • * 2010 , Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies
  • Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will be employed and the feeder will describe how he feels he can be lost in the enveloping folds of soft flesh.

    Derived terms

    * bottom feeder * feeder cattle * feeder fish * feederism

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns ----

    liner

    English

    Etymology 1

    From line (verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who fits a lining to something.
  • a liner of shoes
  • * 1973', A good '''liner has a pretty shrewd idea of the value of the painting he is treating and usually charges accordingly. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, ''Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 41)
  • A removable cover or lining
  • I threw out the trash can liner .
  • The pamphlet which is contained inside an album of music or movie
  • Does it have the lyrics in the liner notes?
  • 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.
  • A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
  • Etymology 2

    From line (noun).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • (nautical)  A ship of the line.
  • (baseball)  A line drive.
  • The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.
  • (marketing, slang)  A basic salesperson.
  • (in combination)  Something with a specified number of lines.
  • * 2005 , G. J. H. Van Gelder, Close Relationships (page 130)
  • the following three-liner by an unknown poet
    Derived terms
    * ocean liner * one-liner

    See also

    * airliner