liner

Other forms of liner

plural

liners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about liner

What does liner mean?

liner means "(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liner?

liner has 2 syllables: li-ner. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪnɚ/.

What is another word for liner?

Close synonyms include line drive, lining, lining, ocean liner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liner a common word?

liner is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with liner?

5 words rhyme with liner. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.