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Lining

noun

A protective covering that protects an inside surface. Synonym: liner.

A piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment. Synonym: liner.

Providing something with a surface of a different material. Synonym: facing.

The act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.).

Line

verb

(past & past part. lined; pres. part. lining)

Be in line with; form a line along. Synonym: run along.

Cover the interior of. "Line a chimney"

Make a mark or lines on a surface. Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, trace. "Trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

Mark with lines.

Fill plentifully.

Reinforce with fabric.

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"Lining" Quotes from Famous Books

... again, and turned out the white silk lining, which was soaking and stained with wild sea-travel. ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various

... on one side of the wall. In some there is not even the pretence of a window, but in cases of severe sickness a hole is knocked through for ventilation on hearing of the near approach of the Mission doctor. The walls have only one thickness of board with no lining and the roofs are thatched with sods. There is no flooring whatever. Not one person in Cremailliere can ...

— Le Petit Nord - or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour • Anne Elizabeth Caldwell (MacClanahan) Grenfell and Katie Spalding

... lobbies of the House and the correspondence columns of The Times; it was only at the last that the urbanities of the struggle between the "Die-hards" and their fellow Unionists furnished the public as a whole with material for a mild sporting interest. When Roundheads and Cavaliers were lining up for the battle of Edgehill a Warwickshire squire was observed between the opposing forces placidly drawing the coverts for a fox. The British people during the past twenty months have seemed more than once to resemble ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor

... the sorrow and ecstasy, chiefly metaphysical, of this pair. The scheme is too remote from our days and ways. These young persons were make-believe, after all, and while they sonorously declaimed their passion—hers for a speedy death, his for the new life—under a canopy with mother-of-pearl lining (Reinhardt, too, can be very Teutonic), I didn't believe in them, and, I fear, neither did Strauss. He has written sparkling music, Offenbachian music, rainbow music and music sheerly humouristic, yet the entire ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... relationship with the stable product of the peace-time industry. At the same time, it provides an example of the way in which general technique developed by the industry was rapidly used to master the new process. In particular their method of lining reaction vessels was of value here. The reaction occurs in two stages by the production of methyl formate and its subsequent chlorination. The methyl-formate plant was part of an existing installation, but the chlorination and ...

— by Victor LeFebure • J. Walker McSpadden

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