lid

See also łid, and Lid

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *xliðom (compare Dutch lid, German Lid ‘eyelid’, Swedish lid 'gate'), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlíto (“post, trimmed log”) (compare Old Norse hlíð 'slope', Welsh clwyd 'gate, hurdle', Latin clitellae 'pack saddle', Lithuanian šlìtė 'ladder', pã-šlitas 'curved', Russian калитка (kalitka) 'gate', Ancient Greek ἂκλίτος (áklítos) 'stable', (pl.) diklídes 'double-posted (doors, gates)', Yazghulami xad 'ladder', Sanskrit ... (śritás) 'leaning, lying; ladder'), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). More at lean.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

lid (plural lids)

1. top or cover of a container
2. (slang) a cap or hat
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII:

     “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

3. (slang) one ounce of cannabis
4. (surfing slang, mainly Australia) bodyboard or bodyboarder

   the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders — Kneelo Knews August 2003 [1]

   Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes. — realsurf.com message board 2001 [2]

5. (slang) a motorcyclist's crash helmet

Derived terms

• skid lid
• flip your lid
• keep the lid on something/someone
• lidless
• eyelid

Translations

top or cover

Albanian: kapak (sq) m. Armenian: կափարիչ (hy) (kap’arič), խուփ (hy) (xup’) Old Armenian: կափարիչ (kapʿaričʿ), խուփն (xupʿn) Azeri: qapaq (az) Bosnian: kapak (bs) m., poklopac (bs) m. Catalan: tapa (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 蓋子 (cmn), 盖子 (cmn) (gàizi), 蓋 (cmn), 盖 (cmn) (gài) Croatian: poklopac (hr) m. Czech: víko (cs) n. Dutch: deksel (nl) n. Finnish: kansi (fi) French: couvercle (fr) m. (1) Georgian: ხუფი (ka) (xup’i) German: Deckel (de) m. Greek: καπάκι (el) Hungarian: fedél (hu)

Italian: coperchio (it) m. Japanese: 蓋 (ja) (futa) Kurdish: qepax (ku) f. Piedmontese: cjioèrca f. Polish: pokrywka (pl) f., wieko (pl) n., wieczko (pl) n. Portuguese: tampa (pt) f. Romanian: capac (ro) f. and m. Russian: крышка (ru) (kryška) f. Scottish Gaelic: mullach (gd) m., ceann (gd) m., faircill (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: капак (sr) m., поклопац (sr) m. Roman: kapak (sr) m., poklopac (sr) m. Sicilian: cummogghiu (scn) m. Spanish: tapa (es) f. Swahili: kifuniko (sw) Swedish: lock (sv) Telugu: మూత (te) (moota) Turkish: kapak (tr)

Verb

lid (third-person singular simple present lid, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)

1. to put a lid on something

Anagrams

• DIL

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Czech

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Noun

lid m.

1. people

Derived terms

• lidový m.
• lidnatý
• lidumil m.
• zalidnění
• přelidnění

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hlít.

Noun

lid c.

1. trust

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lide

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪt

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Noun

lid n. (plural leden, diminutive lidje)

1. member (of a group)
2. member (extremity of a body)

Derived terms

• gemeenteraadslid

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Lojban

Rafsi

lid

1. Rafsi of lindi.

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Old High German

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *liþ-, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.

Noun

lid

1. member

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Spanish

Etymology

Latin lis; see also litigate

Noun

lid f. (plural lides)

1. lawsuit
2. fight

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Swedish

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lida.