English Online Dictionary. What means lid? What does lid mean?
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)
- The top or cover of a container.
- (slang) A cap or hat.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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)
- (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)
- member (of a group or club)
- member, limb
Derived terms
- lidmaat
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɪt]
Noun
lid m inan
- 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)
- trust
Verb
lid
- 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)
- 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.]
- 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
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- lir, lider
Verb
lid
- present tense of lide
- imperative of lide
Etymology 2
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
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“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
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
- A slope of a hill.
Declension
Verb
lid
- imperative of lida
Further reading
- lid in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
Volapük
Etymology
From German Lied.
Noun
lid (nominative plural lids)
- song
Declension
Welsh
Noun
lid
- Soft mutation of llid.