loid
Appearance
See also: loíd
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Short for celluloid.
Noun
[edit]loid (plural loids)
- A tool made from a piece of celluloid, used for bypassing locks.
Verb
[edit]loid (third-person singular simple present loids, present participle loiding, simple past and past participle loided)
- (transitive) To force (a door) open by slipping a credit card or similar thin object between the door and the frame.
- 1983, Ronald L. Cruit, Intruder in your home, page 42:
- A deadbolt can't be loided because it doesn't have a curved, self-latching bolt.
- 2012, Lawrence Fennelly, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, page 346:
- The loiding of windows is accomplished by inserting a thin stiff object between the meeting rails or stiles to move the latch to the open position, or by inserting a thin stiff wire through openings between the stile or rail and the frame […]
Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *loita.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]loid (genitive loiu, partitive loidu, comparative loium or loiem, superlative kõige loium or kõige loiem)
- lethargic, listless
- Naine kaebas, et mees on muutunud loiuks.
- The wife complained that her husband had become lethargic.
- slow, sluggish
Declension
[edit]| Declension of loid (ÕS type 22e/riik, d-ø gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | loid | loiud | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | loiu | ||
| genitive | loidude | ||
| partitive | loidu | loide loidusid | |
| illative | loidu loiusse |
loidudesse | |
| inessive | loius | loidudes | |
| elative | loiust | loidudest | |
| allative | loiule | loidudele | |
| adessive | loiul | loidudel | |
| ablative | loiult | loidudelt | |
| translative | loiuks | loidudeks | |
| terminative | loiuni | loidudeni | |
| essive | loiuna | loidudena | |
| abessive | loiuta | loidudeta | |
| comitative | loiuga | loidudega | |
Derived terms
[edit]adverbs
References
[edit]- loid in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “loid”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “loid”, in [SP] Eesti keele sõnapered [Estonian Word Families] (in Estonian) (online version, continuously updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012–
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