Finer vs Liner - What's the difference?
finer | liner |
Someone who fits a lining to something.
* 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
The pamphlet which is contained inside an album of music or movie
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.
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 (nautical) A ship of the line.
(baseball) A line drive.
(marketing, slang) A basic salesperson.
(in combination) Something with a specified number of lines.
* 2005 , G. J. H. Van Gelder, Close Relationships (page 130)
As an adjective finer
is (fine).As a noun finer
is one who fines or purifies.liner
English
Etymology 1
From line (verb).Noun
(en noun)- a liner of shoes
- I threw out the trash can liner .
- Does it have the lyrics in the liner notes?
Etymology 2
From line (noun).Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.
- the following three-liner by an unknown poet