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Synonym: Ocean LinerSynonym: liner (n). (additional references) |
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Ocean liners were the primary mode of intercontinental travel for over a century, from the mid-19th century to the 1960s, when they were finally supplanted by airliners.
In the "Golden Age" of ocean liners in the early part of the 20th century, many offered extremely luxurious travel for a wealthy few; although even the finest ships carried large numbers of poorer passengers in cramped quarters on the lower decks. Older ships were often given over to carrying immigrants at low prices.
The best-known of the liners was the Titanic, unfortunately famous for sinking on her maiden voyage. The Cunard Line's Mauretania of 1907 was widely considered the finest of all the liners of its generation,and in decades following many had a similar devotion to the SS Normandie.
After the 1960s collapse of the passenger ship business, many ocean liners continued in use as cruise ships; as of 2003, a small number are still in service. A few more, such as the Queen Mary, are still afloat but permanently docked and used for other purposes.
See also: List of ocean liners
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ocean liner."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Gosh, Mr. White, an ocean liner on Main Street? (The New Adventures of Superman; writing credit: Joe Shuster; Jerry Siegel) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Ocean liner in port.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lounge in ocean liner or steamship.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dining room with stained glass skylight in ocean liner or steamship.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ocean liner | 535 |
ocean liner picture | 41 |
great ocean liner | 35 |
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| Language | Translations for "ocean liner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überseedampfer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπερωκεάνιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | óceánjáró (liner, ocean-going). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 巨船 , 巨舶 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょせん, きょはく (an authority, big shot, star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oceanay inerlay imensidão (wilderness). (various references) transatlántico (liner, transatlantic). (various references) oceanångare. (various references) เรือเดินสมุทร. (various references) okyanus gemisi. (various references) tàu biển chở khách. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arecoline, cornelian. | |
-2 letters: acrolein, colinear, narceine, reliance. | |
-3 letters: aileron, alencon, aliener, alienor, calorie, cannier, cannoli, cariole, carline, cineole, clarion, cleaner, coalier, corneae, corneal, eloiner, encinal, leonine, loricae, narcein, reclean, recline. | |
-4 letters: aeonic, aliner, alnico, ancone, areole, canine, cannel, canner, cannie, careen, carlin, carnie, caroli, ceiler, cereal, cineol, cloner, coaler, coiler, coiner, conine, conner, cornea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: crenelation, intolerance. | |
+2 letters: antielectron, conferential, crenelations, crenellation, intolerances, overcleaning. | |
+3 letters: antielectrons, containerless, convertiplane, crenellations, nonallergenic, nonelectrical, nonretractile. | |
+4 letters: antireflection, concelebrating, concelebration, convertiplanes, grandiloquence, inconsiderable, intercessional, interjectional, intersectional, ironicalnesses, neurogenically, noncelebration, nongeometrical, nontheoretical, rhinencephalon, unrecognizable, unreconcilable. | |
+5 letters: concelebrations, grandiloquences, incommensurable, inconsiderately, noncelebrations, noncredentialed, precancellation, rhinencephalons, ultraconvenient. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 63 65 61 6E 4C 69 6E 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01100011 01100101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O c e a n   L i n e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0063 0065 0061 006E 004C 0069 006E 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)496971678024675807184 |
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