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English
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
Noun
lid (plural lids)
- The top or cover of a container.
- (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.
- (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
- (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
- (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
- (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- 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 […].
- (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
- (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.
- (Liverpool) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)
Derived terms
Translations
top or cover
- Albanian: kapak (sq) m
- Amharic: ክዳን (kədan)
- Arabic: غِطَاء m (ḡiṭāʔ)
- Armenian: կափարիչ (hy) (kapʻaričʻ), խուփ (hy) (xupʻ)
- Old Armenian: կափարիչ (kapʻaričʻ), խուփ (xupʻ)
- Assamese: ঢাকনি (dhakoni), ঢাকনি (dhakoni)
- Asturian: tapa f
- Azerbaijani: qapaq (az)
- Bashkir: ҡапҡас (qapqas)
- Basque: estalki (eu)
- Belarusian: ве́чка n (vjéčka), кры́шка f (krýška)
- Bengali: ঢাকনা (bn) (ḍhakona)
- Bhojpuri: ढक्कन (ḍhakkan)
- Bikol Central: takop (bcl)
- Bulgarian: капа́к (bg) m (kapák), похлупа́к (bg) m (pohlupák)
- Burmese: အဖုံး (my) (a.hpum:)
- Catalan: tapa (ca) f
- Chickasaw: pakna'
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蓋子/盖子 (zh) (gàizi), 蓋/盖 (zh) (gài)
- Czech: víko (cs) n, víčko (cs) n, poklička (cs) f
- Danish: låg n
- Dutch: deksel (nl) n
- Esperanto: kovrilo
- Estonian: kaas
- Faroese: lok n
- Finnish: kansi (fi)
- French: couvercle (fr) m
- Galician: tampa f, tapa (gl) f, tapadeira f, cobertoira (gl) f, tello m, testo (gl) m
- Georgian: ხუფი (xupi), თავსახური (tavsaxuri), ხუფი (xupi), სახურავი (saxuravi)
- German: Deckel (de) m
- Greek: καπάκι (el) (kapáki)
- Ancient: πῶμα n (pôma)
- Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: מִכְסֶה (he) m (mikhsé)
- Hindi: ढक्कन (hi) m (ḍhakkan)
- Hungarian: fedél (hu), fedő (hu), födél (hu), födő (hu)
- Icelandic: lok (is) n
- Indonesian: tudung (id)
- Italian: coperchio (it) m, tappo (it) m
- Japanese: 蓋 (ja) (ふた, futa)
- Kazakh: қақпақ (qaqpaq)
- Khmer: គ្រប (km) (krɔɔp), គំរប (kumrɔɔp)
- Korean: 뚜껑 (ko) (ttukkeong), 덮개 (ko) (deopgae)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: qepax (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: капкак (ky) (kapkak)
- Ladin: cuiertl m
- Lao: ຝາ (lo) (fā)
- Latin: operculum n
- Latvian: vāks m
- Lithuanian: kamštelis m, dangtis m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Deckel (nds) m
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: капак (mk) m (kapak), поклопец m (poklopec)
- Malay: tudung (ms)
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: झाकण (jhākaṇ)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: таг (mn) (tag)
- Nivkh: ырпс (ərps)
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lokk (no) n
- Nynorsk: lokk n
- Occitan: cobertor (oc) m, cobertoira (oc) f, tapador (oc) m
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Ottoman Turkish: قپاق (kapak)
- Pashto: سرپوش m (sarpóš), سر پوښ m (sarpox̌)
- Persian: درپوش (fa) (darpuš), در (fa) (dar), سرپوش (fa) (sarpuš)
- Piedmontese: cjioèrca f
- Polish: nakrywka f, pokrywka (pl) f, wieko (pl) n, wieczko (pl) n
- Portuguese: tampa (pt) f
- Quechua: chipchi
- Romanian: capac (ro) n
- Russian: кры́шка (ru) f (krýška)
- Scottish Gaelic: mullach m, ceann m, faircill m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка̀пак m, по̀клопац m
- Roman: kàpak (sh) m, pòklopac (sh) m
- Shan: please add this translation if you can
- Sicilian: cummogghiu (scn) m
- Sinhalese: ආවරණය (si) (āwaraṇaya)
- Slovak: viečko n, veko n
- Slovene: pokrov (sl) m inan, pokrovka (sl) f
- Spanish: tapa (es) f, tapadera (es) f, tapador m
- Swahili: kifuniko (sw)
- Swedish: lock (sv) c or n
- Tagalog: takip (tl)
- Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: сарпӯш (sarpüš)
- Tamil: மூடி (ta) (mūṭi)
- Tatar: капкач (tt) (qapkaç)
- Telugu: మూత (te) (mūta)
- Thai: ฝา (th) (fǎa)
- Tibetan: ཁ་གཅོད (kha gcod)
- Tigrinya: መኽደን (mäxdän)
- Turkish: kapak (tr)
- Turkmen: gapak
- Ukrainian: кри́шка f (krýška)
- Urdu: ڈھکن m (ḍhakkan)
- Uyghur: قاپقاق (qapqaq)
- Uzbek: qopqoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: nắp (vi), vung (vi)
- Volapük: tegot (vo), (coffin) sarkategot, (trunk) trökategot, (chest) bogategot, (box) bokategot, (glass) glätategot, (mug) köpategot
- Welsh: caead (cy) m
- Yiddish: דעקל n (dekl)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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Verb
lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)
- (transitive) To put a lid on (something).
- Antonym: unlid
Derived terms
Translations
to put a lid on something
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch lid.
Pronunciation
Noun
lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)
- member (of a group or club)
- member, limb
Derived terms
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
lid m inan
- people
Declension
Declension of lid (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
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singular
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nominative
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lid
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genitive
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lidu
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dative
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lidu
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accusative
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lid
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vocative
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lide
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locative
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lidu
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instrumental
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lidem
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “lid”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “lid”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “lid”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hlít.
Noun
lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)
- trust
Verb
lid
- 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)
- member (of a group)
- Synonym: lidmaat
- member, limb (extremity of a body)
- Synonym: ledemaat
- member, penis
- Synonym: penis
- (law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)
- (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken
- Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Noun
lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)
- (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)
- (colloquial) member (of a group).
- Synonym: anggota
Further reading
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Pronunciation
Noun
lid (plural liddis)
- A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.
- The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.
- The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.
- (rare) The top layer of a pastry dish.
Descendants
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lid
- imperative of lide
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
lid
- present tense of lide
- imperative of lide
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
lid f (plural lidi)
- (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
- 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 ?
- member
Descendants
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)
- lawsuit
- Synonym: litigio
- fight
- Synonym: lucha
Derived 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
- A slope of a hill.
Declension
Verb
lid
- imperative of lida
Further reading
Volapük
Etymology
From German Lied.
Noun
lid (nominative plural lids)
- song
Declension
declension of lid
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Welsh
Noun
lid
- Soft mutation of llid.
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
West Frisian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *liþuz. The plural leden is from Dutch.
Noun
lid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)
- limb, member (of the body)
- penis
- part (of a whole)
Usage notes
- The plural lea occurs only in sense 1 and usually in a collective sense, i.e. referring to all of a person’s limbs.
Noun
lid n (plural leden)
- member (of a group)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Noun
lid n (plural lidden, diminutive lidsje)
- lid, cover
- Short for eachlid (“eyelid”).