streamliner
streamliner noun: one who or that which streamlines something.
Noun
streamliner (plural streamliners)
- One who or that which streamlines something.
- He turned out to be a brilliant expert on timber and on the lumber business in general, a specialist on soils, and an amazing streamliner of earth-moving work.2007, Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism, page 116
- Something with a streamlined design, especially railroad locomotives and passenger equipment.
- […] the three streamliners, still on their 29½ hr. schedule, start at 9.40 a.m., also turn-and-turn-about, and so arranged that the 9.0 and 9.40 a.m. departures are by different routes each day; [...].1942 May-June, “Notes and News: War and the American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 185
- Californians brook no argument on the subject: for them the Southern Pacific's Coast Daylight was the world's most beautiful streamliner - a band of red, orange, and black drawn by appropriately styled Lima GS 4-8-4's.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 104
Forms of streamliner
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Origin of streamliner
From streamline + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (patient suffix).
Questions about streamliner
- What does streamliner mean?
- Streamliner means one who or that which streamlines something.
- What part of speech is streamliner?
- Streamliner is a noun.
- What is the plural of streamliner?
- The plural of streamliner is streamliners.
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