lid
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Etymology edit
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”).
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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.
- (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)
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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
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lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)
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Czech edit
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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.
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lid m inan
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Danish edit
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lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)
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lid
- imperative of lide
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- “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
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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
- (law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)
- (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]
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From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
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lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)
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Indonesian edit
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From Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
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lid (first-person possessive lidku, second-person possessive lidmu, third-person possessive lidnya)
- (colloquial) member (of a group).
- Synonym: anggota
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- “lid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
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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.
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- “lid, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-29.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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lid
- imperative of lide
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lid
- present tense of lide
- imperative of lide
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lid f (plural lidi)
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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lid n
- ship, vessel
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip
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Old High German edit
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From Proto-Germanic *liþuz, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.
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lid ?
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Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).
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lid f (plural lides)
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- chapter LID, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Inherited from Old Swedish liþ, from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. Cognate of Latin clīvus, Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma), Old English hliþ.
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- Rhymes: -iːd
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lid c
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Declension of lid | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lid | liden | lider | liderna |
Genitive | lids | lidens | liders | lidernas |
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lid
- imperative of lida
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lid (nominative plural lids)
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lid
- Soft mutation of llid.
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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. |