lid
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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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editNoun
editlid (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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Verb
editlid (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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editAfrikaans
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editNoun
editlid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)
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editCzech
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlid m inan
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editDerived terms
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editDanish
editEtymology
editNoun
editlid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)
Verb
editlid
- imperative of lide
Further reading
edit- “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
Noun
editlid 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 [from late 16th c.]
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editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Noun
editlid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)
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editIndonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
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editNoun
editlid (first-person possessive lidku, second-person possessive lidmu, third-person possessive lidnya)
- (colloquial) member (of a group).
- Synonym: anggota
Further reading
edit- “lid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlid (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
editReferences
edit- “lid, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-29.
Norwegian Bokmål
editVerb
editlid
- imperative of lide
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology 1
editAlternative forms
editVerb
editlid
- present tense of lide
- imperative of lide
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editNoun
editlid f (plural lidi)
Old English
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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editNoun
editlid n
- ship, vessel
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip
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editOld High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *liþuz, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.
Noun
editlid ?
Descendants
editSpanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlid f (plural lides)
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editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “lid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Swedish liþ, from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. Cognate of Latin clīvus, Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma), Old English hliþ.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -iːd
Noun
editlid c
Declension
editDeclension of lid | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lid | liden | lider | liderna |
Genitive | lids | lidens | liders | lidernas |
Verb
editlid
- imperative of lida
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editVolapük
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editNoun
editlid (nominative plural lids)
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editWelsh
editNoun
editlid
- Soft mutation of llid.
Mutation
editWest Frisian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Germanic *liþuz. The plural leden is from Dutch.
Noun
editlid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)
Usage notes
edit- 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
editlid n (plural leden)
- member (of a group)
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Noun
edit- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱley- (cover)
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
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- English terms derived from Old English
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- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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- Rhymes:English/ɪd
- Rhymes:English/ɪd/1 syllable
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- en:Microelectronics
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪt
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- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
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- nl:Law
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- nl:Grammar
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- enm:Containers
- enm:Cooking
- enm:Eye
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- Rhymes:Spanish/id
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- Rhymes:Swedish/iːd
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