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Shim vs Liner - What's the difference?

shim | liner |

As nouns the difference between shim and liner

is that shim is a wedge while liner is someone who fits a lining to something.

As a verb shim

is to fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.

shim

English

Etymology 1

Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wedge.
  • A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
  • (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
  • A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
  • A small metal device used to pick open a lock.

    • Verb

  • To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery
  • To adjust something by using shims

    • Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, often, derogatory) a person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual.
  • * 1998 , Hobart Student Association, The Seneca review:
    • He — or "Shim " (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.
  • * 1995 , The Advocate - May 30, 1995 - Page 11:
    • "We call him shim — short for 'she-him.'
  • (informal, often, derogatory) hermaphrodite.

    • References

    Anagrams

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    liner

    English

    Etymology 1

    From line (verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who fits a lining to something.
    • a liner of shoes
  • * 1973', A good '''liner has a pretty shrewd idea of the value of the painting he is treating and usually charges accordingly. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, ''Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 41)
  • A removable cover or lining
    • I threw out the trash can liner .
  • The pamphlet which is contained inside an album of music or movie
    • Does it have the lyrics in the liner notes?
  • A lining within the cylinder of a steam engine, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
  • A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.

    • Etymology 2

    From line (noun).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • (nautical)  A ship of the line.
  • (baseball)  A line drive.
    • The liner glanced off the pitcher's foot.
  • (marketing, slang)  A basic salesperson.
  • (in combination)  Something with a specified number of lines.
  • * 2005 , G. J. H. Van Gelder, Close Relationships (page 130)
    • the following three-liner by an unknown poet
    Derived terms
    * ocean liner * one-liner

    See also

    * airliner