Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A covering or coating for an inside surface.
- noun Material used for such covering or coating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The covering of the inner surface of anything, as of a garment, a box, a wall, or the like.
- noun Specifically— In milit. engin., a wooden sheeting to support the top and sides of the galleries and the sides of the shafts of a mine.
- noun In carpentry, the inside boarding, or the felt fabric, paper, or other material, put on the inside of walls, floors, partitions, etc.
- noun In metal-working, the fire-brick or other refractory material placed within a blast-furnace or converter to resist high temperatures.
- noun The puddling or tenacious clay put on the back of a dam or the embankment of a canal to prevent the infiltration of water.
- noun A piece of canvas sewed on any part of a sail to preserve it against injury by chafing.
- noun In a figurative use, contents.
- noun The jacket of a steam-boiler or -cylinder: an inverted use.
- noun In marble-working, the process of cementing back to back with plaster of Paris two pieces of marble, so that they can be ground on two or on all four faces, as if they were one piece.
- noun The act of measuring, as land, with a line; a fixing of boundaries; specifically, permission granted by a dean of gild to erect or alter a building according to specified conditions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.
- noun That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
covering for theinside surface of something. - noun The
material used for such a covering. - noun The act of
attaching such a covering. - verb Present participle of
line .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.)
- noun providing something with a surface of a different material
- noun a protective covering that protects an inside surface
- noun a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment
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Examples
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This isn't reform it's a way to tax people who already can't afford Health insurance for the purpose of once again lining the pockets of insurance lobbyists.
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They say that every cloud has a silver lining and, now, that silver lining is Paladino.
Jerry Kremer: Carl Paladino: The Gift That Keeps on Giving Jerry Kremer 2010
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Barb: Some people, particularly homosexuals, have anal sex. [after the students quit snickering and/or gasping] This is very high risk for disease because of the thin lining of the rectum.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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The silver lining is that the planner will probably fill up fast ......
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Some people, particularly homosexuals, have anal sex. [after the students quit snickering and/or gasping] This is very high risk for disease because of the thin lining of the rectum.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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There is very high risk for disease because of the thin lining of the rectum.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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The lining is pretty much in shreds, and most of the buttons are gone, but the coat is otherwise intact, so earlier this week I made a bee-line for one of my favorite shops in the whole wide world, Tender Buttons, Inc., at 143 East 62nd Street at Lexington Avenue, to see if I could obtain carefully matched replacement leather buttons, and sew them on.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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The only silver lining is that since everyone has been going to bed early (Mason even NAPPED yesterday, which is almost unheard of), I've been able to mostly keep up on my word count.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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If you like paying exorbitant premiums to people who are only interested in lining their own pockets, then so be it.
Top Dem aide: 'Significant policy issues' could still derail deal 2009
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The silver lining is that the planner will probably fill up fast ......
GHibbs commented on the word lining
My adjectival use: 'You will need to use lining paper.'
August 22, 2011