liner

noun

Definition of linernext
as in plane

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Recent Examples of liner Bake your own cupcakes and present them in these beautiful liners for $9.75 from Amazon. — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2025 Get ready to use your Terrible Towel to dry off after a refreshing dip in an ocean liner's pool, because the official Steelers fan cruise has arrived. — Ryan Deto, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025 Prepare your muffin pan by lining with paper liners. — Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2025 The ship was built between 1950 and 1951 at the height of the Cold War and was the largest ocean liner constructed in the country’s history. — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for liner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for liner
  1. plane
  2. ship
  3. airplane
  4. airliner
  5. tanker
  6. aircraft
  7. air taxi
  8. airship
Noun
  • The plane was built in 2012 with an engine from CFM International.
    — TIME, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Passengers stand on the wing of an American Airlines plane as they are evacuated at Denver International Airport on Thursday.
    — Jay Blackman, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of plane
Noun
  • In separate raids on Crimean anchorages in February, May and June 2024, the USVs sank a corvette, a landing ship, a patrol boat and a tugboat.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The service tallied 296 battle force ships (aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious ships, and logistics and support ships) in December.
    — Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of ship
Noun
  • None of his employees knows how to manage an airplane, Wang replied.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • A bit where Daffy and Porky launch their own ride-share service ends with them stuffing a customer into the landing gear of an airplane, only for the poor guy to fall to his death immediately after take-off.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of airplane
Noun
  • The aircraft is the precursor to the development of Boom’s supersonic commercial airliner, Overture.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after several airliners on approach to land at Washington Reagan National Airport Saturday morning received what appear to be false alarms from their onboard Traffic Collision Avoidance System.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of airliner
Noun
  • The Russian captain of a cargo ship that crashed into a U.S. fuel tanker in the North Sea, appeared in a British court where he was charged with manslaughter and gross negligence.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Russian remanded in fatal sea collision LONDON -- The Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker last week appeared in a U.K. court Saturday where he was remanded in custody over the death of a crew member, who is missing and presumed dead.
    — Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of tanker
Noun
  • Investigators also recovered black boxes from both aircraft.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Russia has regularly sent military aircraft near Alaska.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of aircraft
Noun
  • Plenty of air taxis are prepping for take-off within the next few years.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2025
  • No roads lead into Kobuk Valley, so most visitors arrive via air taxi.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025
Definition of air taxi
Noun
  • This month, it was announced as the motor supplier of the Flying Whales airship project.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Alternative options have always existed—imperial Germany used Zeppelin airships in World War I to subdue the city of London, and Nazi Germany developed V-1 cruise missiles and V-2 ballistic missiles in World War II.
    — Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025
Definition of airship

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