different between liner vs linter

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

English

Etymology 1

Noun

linter (countable and uncountable, plural linters)

1. The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
2. (countable) A machine for removing these fibres.

   Synonym: delinter

3. A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats &c

See also

• lint doctor
• lint roller

Etymology 2

lint +? -er

Noun

linter (plural linters)

1. (computing) A program or algorithm that performs linting.

Latin

Etymology

From older form lunter, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to wash”); more at pluit (“it rains”). Cf. also Ancient Greek ??????? (plunt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lin.ter/, [?l?n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lin.ter/, [?lin?t??r]

Noun

linter f or m (genitive lintris); third declension

1. tub, trough
2. small light boat, skiff, canoe

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• The genitive plural is sometimes found as lintrum.

Descendants

• Albanian: ljundrë
• Aromanian: luntri, lãndurã
• Dalmatian: lundro
• Romanian: luntre

References

• linter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• linter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• linter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• linter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers