streamliner
1
7.7
- noun
- /ˈstriːmˌlaɪnər/
- Archaic
:
tren aerodinámico
- 'Tomorrow, after the streamliner.'
Examples
-
- Imagine the cigar's a ... my streamliner.
-
I came in on the streamliner.
-
First on our list, we admit the Streamliner.
Blog text (24) -
And that's the ... before I put the streamliner on it.
-
The streamliner.'
-
In one version of his dream, Hubert has "supper in the diner of a streamliner speeding toward San Francisco."
Academic text (2017) -
He said one of the benefits of being a famous fighter was riding across the country on a streamliner, watching the world go by and eating bread-and-butter pudding in the diner.
Fiction book (1990) -
On August 25-26, 1952, Central of Georgia Railway and Franklin Simon and Co., a department store, collaborated to present fashion shows on the streamliner Nancy Hanks II during her round trips between Atlanta and Savannah.
Academic text (2010) -
The streamliner is designed to reduce air resistance and travel at high speeds.
-
Passengers enjoyed a smooth ride aboard the sleek new streamliner that zipped across the countryside.
Synonyms
110
1.3
A line of people, animals, or vehicles moving together
5
2.8
A very fast passenger train that runs on special tracks like those in Japan
A very fast passenger train with modern technology
How Streamlined
Surface Forms
Morphology
streamliner = streamline (transparent) = stream + line + er
Formed by adding the productive agent/device suffix '-er' to the familiar verb/adjective 'streamline', yielding a vehicle or thing that is streamlined.
Etymology
The word streamliner combines stream ('smooth flow') and liner ('large passenger ship'), so imagine a train that moves in a smooth line like a flowing stream and glides like a liner. That's why a streamliner is a vehicle shaped to cut through the air easily and go fast.