Thesaurus results for LINER

liner

noun

Definition of liner

as in plane

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Recent Examples of liner The final step is a brown-toned lip liner, which the Grammy winner places on the perimeter of her lips before blending out with her finger. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026 With a man on third in the sixth, Conine made an inning-ending diving catch on Vinnie Pasquantino’s liner. — Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026 In true postmodern fashion, Fitzgerald gets a brief, drunken cameo, meeting Jack on an ocean liner. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 Each of the four fold-out implements within the Helton chassis locks in place via a simple liner lock-style mechanism between the scales that secures the tool at the joint. — New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for liner

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Noun

Players were crying on the plane to Houston and hugging teammates in the clubhouse minutes before the deadline.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The average age of those planes is 30 years, not considered much older than the average age of Amazon’s entire fleet, which is nearly 27 years.

— Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of plane

Noun

Replacing large commercial vessels with alternative-fuel ships can require years of planning and significant capital.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
Vance blames high gas prices on Iran attacking commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz but has no timeline for when that could end.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of ship

Noun

Crews fighting the fire took an innovative approach Monday, using ground vehicles to apply a fire retardant typically dropped from airplanes, according to a post on the forest service’s Facebook page.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
The navies that embraced carrier aviation did not do it by convincing admirals that airplanes were interesting.

— Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of airplane

Noun

According to Guinness World Records, the device was found intact despite falling from an altitude more than three times higher than a typical commercial airliner’s cruising height.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
During its orbit, S301 attains speeds more than 100,000 times faster than a commercial airliner—over eight percent the speed of light.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of airliner

Noun

In January 2025, an American Airlines regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, killing all 67 people aboard the two aircraft.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
The researchers focused on a specific material used in aircraft and train interiors, including passenger-cabin flooring.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

Archer serves as the official air taxi provider for LA28 and Team USA.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026
To make things even more complicated, the only possible way to travel between the small town on the south shore of Lake Clark and surrounding, metropolitan like the state’s capital or Anchorage is via a roughly hours-long seaplane air taxi.

— Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of air taxi

Noun

Brown says the company plans a blimp that can stay aloft for 24 hours or more within a year, which raises the question of what an advertising airship does at night.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Emphasizing that any drone can be a threat in a restricted area, the FBI referred to an incident last year during the LA fires when a man flew his drone into a Super Scooper water dropping airship, grounding it for five days.

— Tom Wait, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of airship

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