lid
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
- IPA(key): /lɪd/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪd
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 1227855:
- “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.
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- (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
- 2001, realsurf.com message board
- (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
- (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- Clipping of eyelid.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- 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 […].
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- (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.
- 2011, Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership (page 11)
- (Liverpudlian) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)
Derived terms
- eyelid
- flip your lid
- keep the lid on something/someone
- lidless
- skid lid
Translations
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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
- unlid
Translations
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Anagrams
- -dil, -dil-, DIL, DLI, IDL, dil-
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch lid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lət]
Noun
lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)
- member (of a group or club)
- member, limb
Derived terms
- lidmaat
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɪt]
audio (file)
Noun
lid m
- people
Declension
singular | |
---|---|
nominative | lid |
genitive | lidu |
dative | lidu |
accusative | lid |
vocative | lide |
locative | lidu |
instrumental | lidem |
Derived terms
- lidový
- lidnatý
- lidumil
- zalidnění
- přelidnění
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)
- trust
Verb
lid
- imperative of lide
Further reading
- “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪt/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: lid
- Rhymes: -ɪt
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
- (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]
- Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid
Derived terms
- baarlid
- erelid
- gemeenteraadslid
- kamerlid
- ledemaat
- ledenbestand
- ledental
- lidmaat
- lidwoord
- raadslid
- regeringslid
- voorlid
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)
- (rare) lid, cover
Derived terms
- ooglid
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɪt]
- Hyphenation: lid
Noun
lid (first-person possessive lidku, second-person possessive lidmu, third-person possessive lidnya)
- (colloquial) member (of a group).
- Synonym: anggota
Further reading
- “lid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- lyd, lidde, lidd, lydde
Etymology
From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lid/
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
- English: lid
- Scots: lid
References
- “lid, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-29.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lid
- imperative of lide
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- lir, lider
Verb
lid
- present tense of lide
- imperative of lide
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liː/
- (Sunnmøre) IPA(key): /liːd/
Noun
lid f (plural lidi)
- (pre-1917 or dialectal) a sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest. Alternative form of li.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *liþuz, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.
Noun
lid ?
- member
Descendants
- Middle High German: lit
- Alemannic German: Lid
- German: Lied
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish, from Latin lītem, singular accusative of līs (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlid/ [ˈlið̞]
- Rhymes: -id
- Syllabification: lid
Noun
lid f (plural lides)
- lawsuit
- Synonym: litigio
- fight
- Synonym: lucha
Derived terms
- en buena lid
Related terms
- lidiar
- litigar
- litigio
Further reading
- “lid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːd
Noun
lid c
- A slope of a hill.
Declension
Declension of lid | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lid | liden | lider | liderna |
Genitive | lids | lidens | liders | lidernas |
Verb
lid
- imperative of lida.
Volapük
Etymology
From German Lied.
Noun
lid (nominative plural lids)
- song
Declension
singular | plural | |
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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
- Soft mutation of llid.
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- li, löyd
Etymology
From Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīþō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liː/, /lʏɪ̯ːd/
- Rhymes: -íːð
- (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -íː, -íːð
- (í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íːð, -ýːð
Noun
lid f (definite singular lia or lida, dative lin)
- mountain side, wooded slope of a mountain or summit[1]
Usage notes
It lies in the concept of this denomination in Westrobothnia, that the slope should be available either for cultivation or at least bear grass and healthy forest. Many villages and homes have hereof names.
Derived terms
- baklid
References
- Rietz, Johan Ernst, “LI(D)”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 401