Sentence:  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 <WSD>liner</WSD> swimming diagonally across the site. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A large passenger-carrying ship, especially one on a regular route; an ocean liner.