lid

lid

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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

  • IPA(key): /lɪd/
  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

lid (plural lids)

  1. The top or cover of a container.
  2. (slang) A cap or hat.
  3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
  4. (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
  5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
  6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
  7. Clipping of eyelid.
  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.
  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

  • unlid

Translations

Anagrams

  • -dil, -dil-, DIL, DLI, IDL, dil-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lət]

Noun

lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)

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

Derived terms

  • lidmaat

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɪt]

Noun

lid m inan

  1. people

Declension

Derived terms

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

  • “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪt/
  • 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)

  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 [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)

  1. (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)

  1. (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)

  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

  • 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

  1. imperative of lide

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • lir, lider

Verb

lid

  1. present tense of lide
  2. imperative of lide

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liː/
  • (Sunnmøre) IPA(key): /liːd/

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 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
    • Alemannic German: Lid
    • German: Lied

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lid f (plural lides)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “lid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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

  • Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

lid c

  1. A slope of a hill.

Declension

Verb

lid

  1. imperative of lida

Further reading

  • lid in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

Volapük

Etymology

From German Lied.

Noun

lid (nominative plural lids)

  1. song

Declension

Welsh

Noun

lid

  1. Soft mutation of llid.

Mutation

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