Liner vs Ferry - What's the difference?
liner | ferry |
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)
A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
* Milton
* Campbell
* around 1900 , O. Henry,
The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.
To carry; transport; convey.
* 2007 , Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks :
To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between liner and ferry
is that liner is someone who fits a lining to something while ferry is a ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.As a verb ferry is
to carry; transport; convey.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
Derived terms
* ocean liner * one-linerSee also
* airlinerferry
English
Noun
(ferries)- It can pass the ferry backward into light.
- to row me o'er the ferry
- She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry , and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.
Derived terms
* ferry bridge * ferry railwayDescendants
* French: (l) * Malay: (l) * Swahili: (l)Verb
(en-verb)- We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.
