Liner

(noun.) (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter; 'the batter hit a liner to the shortstop'.

(noun.) a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule).

(noun.) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment.

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• In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• An average size ocean liner pays about $5,000 for the privilege of sailing through this great ditch. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• This is inclosed by the tube, which is also in one piece, surrounding the liner throughout its length. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Before the nineteenth century there were no ships in the world much over 2,000 tons burthen; now there is nothing wonderful about a 50,000-ton liner. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She tried to imagine her wood-god by her side in the saloon of an ocean liner. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The parts of such a gun are known as the liner, the tube, the jacket and the hoops. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The liner and tube are then placed upright in an assembling pit, the jacket and hoops shrunk on, and the finishing work done, as above said, the breech mechanism being finally fitted. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The liner is a single piece which extends the length of the bore and is intended to contain the rifling and the powder chamber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• To-day every ocean liner is equipped with its own cold storage and ice-making plant, refrigerator cars transport vast cargoes of meats, fish, etc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The installation of turbines on ocean liners has been accompanied by great increase in speed, and by an almost corresponding decrease in the cost of maintenance. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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