different between liner vs agn

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?n?/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(r)

Etymology 1

line +? -er (from the verb).

Noun

liner (plural liners)

1. 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)
2. A removable cover or lining

   I threw out the trash can liner.

3. The pamphlet which is contained inside an album of music or movie

   Does it have the lyrics in the liner notes?

4. 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.
5. A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
6. formal no show sock

Derived terms

• pond liner
• section liner

Etymology 2

line +? -er (from the noun).

Noun

liner (plural liners)

1. A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
2. (nautical) A ship of the line.
3. (baseball) A line drive.

   The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.

4. (marketing, slang) A basic salesperson.
5. (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

6. (South Korean idol fandom) person born in a certain year (XX liner)

7. Short for penny-a-liner.

Derived terms

• cargo liner
• ocean liner
• one-liner

Translations

See also

• airliner

Anagrams

• -relin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

liner f

1. indefinite plural of line

Spanish

Noun

liner m (plural lineres)

1. liner

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?H-ono-, same source as Sanskrit ??????? (a?n?ti, “to eat”), Sanskrit ??? (a?ana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ?????? (ákolos, “morsel”).

Noun

agn c (singular definite agnen, plural indefinite agne)

1. bait

Declension

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?H-ono-, same source as Sanskrit ??????? (a?n?ti, “to eat”), Sanskrit ??? (a?ana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ?????? (ákolos, “morsel”).

Noun

agn n (genitive singular agns, plural øgn)

1. bait

Declension

Synonyms

• (bait): beita f

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?H-ono-, same source as Sanskrit ??????? (a?n?ti, “to eat”), Sanskrit ??? (a?ana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ?????? (ákolos, “morsel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akn/
• Rhymes: -akn

Noun

agn n (genitive singular agns, nominative plural ögn)

1. bait

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “agana-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 3

Declension

Synonyms

• (bait): beita

Ladin

Noun

agn

1. plural of ann

Lombard

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/

Noun

agn

1. plural of ann

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?H-ono-, same source as Sanskrit ??????? (a?n?ti, “to eat”), Sanskrit ??? (a?ana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ?????? (ákolos, “morsel”).

Noun

agn n (definite singular agnet, indefinite plural agn, definite plural agna or agnene)

1. bait

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agn.

Noun

agn n (definite singular agnet, indefinite plural agn, definite plural agna)

1. (countable and uncountable) bait

Etymology 2

From earlier ogn and Old Norse ?gn (plural agnir), from Proto-Germanic *agan?, *ahan?.

Alternative forms

• ogn (non-standard since 1938)

Noun

agn f (definite singular agna, indefinite plural agner, definite plural agnene)

1. husk
2. (plural only) chaff

References

• “agn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ang, ang., gan

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?H-ono-, same source as Sanskrit ??????? (a?n?ti, “to eat”), Sanskrit ??? (a?ana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ?????? (ákolos, “morsel”).

Noun

agn n (genitive agns, plural ?gn)

1. bait

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: agn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: agn
• Norwegian Bokmål: agn
• Swedish: agn

References

• agn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?H-ono-, same source as Sanskrit ??????? (a?n?ti, “to eat”), Sanskrit ??? (a?ana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ?????? (ákolos, “morsel”).

Noun

agn c

1. (rare) lure; food set up to attract an animal

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ?gn, from Proto-Germanic *ahan?.

Noun

agn c

1. husk
2. (plural only) chaff

Declension