Meaning

3 senses
  1. A covering for the inside surface of something.

    Futter

    подкла́дкаpodkládka

    підкла́дкаpidkládka

    a protective covering that protects an inside surface

  2. The material used for such a covering.

    Futterstoff

  3. The act of attaching such a covering.

    Füttern

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

Examples

24 sentences
  1. What are you lining up for?

    ruКуда очередь занял? — odexed

    deWofür stehst du an? — Yorwba

  2. There is a silver lining to every dark cloud!

    Завжди є світло в кінці тунелю. — deniko

  3. Well, every cloud has a silver lining.

    ruНу, каждая палка о двух концах. — shanghainese

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  4. This tragedy also had a silver lining.

    ruВ этой трагедии всё же можно было найти что-то хорошее. — Ooneykcall

    deAuch bei dieser Tragödie gab es einen Hoffnungsschimmer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. I'm always looking for a silver lining.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
covering for the inside of something:
Русский
By meaning 1
covering for the inside of something:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
covering for the inside of something:
material used for inside covering:
act of attaching an inside covering:

Forms

plural: linings
Singularlining
Plurallinings

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • providing something with a surface of a different material:facing
  • a protective covering that protects an inside surface:liner
  • a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment:liner

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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