lid

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪd/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

lid (plural lids)

  1. The top or cover of a container.
  2. (slang) A cap or hat.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
      “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, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
    • 2001, realsurf.com message board‎:
      Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
    • 2003 August, Kneelo Knews‎:
      the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
  5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
  6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
  7. Clipping of eyelid.
    • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2:
      But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
  8. (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
  9. (figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
    • 2011, Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership, page 11:
      Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me. I am the problem with my company and you are the problem with your company.
  10. (Liverpool) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To put a lid on (something).
    Antonym: unlid

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lid.

Pronunciation

Noun

lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)

  1. member (of a group or club)
  2. member, limb

Derived terms

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

lid m inan

  1. people

Declension

Declension of lid (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
singular
nominative lid
genitive lidu
dative lidu
accusative lid
vocative lide
locative lidu
instrumental lidem

Derived terms

adjectives
nouns

Further reading

  • lid in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • lid in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • lid in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hlít.

Noun

lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)

  1. trust

Verb

lid

  1. imperative of lide

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

Noun

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n or ledeken n)

  1. member (of a group)
    Synonym: lidmaat
  2. member, limb (extremity of a body)
    Synonym: ledemaat
  3. member, penis
  4. (law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)
  5. (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken
    Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: lid
  • → Indonesian: lid
  • Negerhollands: lid, leden, leeden

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Noun

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)

  1. (rare) lid, cover
Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

Pronunciation

Noun

lid (first-person possessive lidku, second-person possessive lidmu, third-person possessive lidnya)

  1. (colloquial) member (of a group).
    Synonym: anggota

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Pronunciation

Noun

lid (plural liddis)

  1. A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.
  2. The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.
  3. The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.
  4. (rare) The top layer of a pastry dish.

Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lid

  1. imperative of lide

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Verb

lid

  1. present tense of lide
  2. imperative of lide

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

lid f (plural lidi)

  1. (pre-1917 or dialectal) a sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest. Alternative form of li.

Old English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

lid n

  1. ship, vessel
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

Derived terms

Old High German

Etymology

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

Noun

lid ?

  1. member

Descendants

  • Middle High German: lit

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlid/
  • Rhymes: -id
  • Syllabification: lid

Noun

lid f (plural lides)

  1. lawsuit
    Synonym: litigio
  2. fight
    Synonym: lucha

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish liþ, from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. Cognate of Latin clīvus, Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma), Old English hliþ.

Pronunciation

Noun

lid c

  1. A slope of a hill.

Declension

Declension of lid 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lid liden lider liderna
Genitive lids lidens liders lidernas

Verb

lid

  1. imperative of lida

Further reading

Volapük

Etymology

From German Lied.

Noun

lid (nominative plural lids)

  1. song

Declension

declension of lid
singular plural
nominative lid lids
genitive lida lidas
dative lide lides
accusative lidi lidis
vocative 1 o lid! o lids!
predicative 2 lidu lidus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

Noun

lid

  1. Soft mutation of llid.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
llid lid unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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