lid

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lid"

English

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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):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

lid (plural lids)

1. The top or cover of a container.
2. (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.

3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
4. (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

5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
7. 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 […].

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.
   • 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.

10. (Liverpool) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)

Derived terms

• blow one's lid
• blow the lid off
• call a lid
• eyelid
• flip one's lid
• flip the lid
• flip your lid
• keep a lid on
• keep the lid on something/someone
• lidless
• lid-lifter
• lift the lid
• put a lid on it
• put the lid on
• put the tin lid on it
• skid lid
• there is a lid for every pot
• there's a lid for every pot
• tin lid

 

Translations

top or cover

Albanian: kapak (sq) m Amharic: ክዳን (kədan) Arabic: غِطَاء m (ḡiṭāʔ) Armenian: կափարիչ (hy) (kapʻaričʻ), խուփ (hy) (xupʻ) Old Armenian: կափարիչ (kapʻaričʻ), խուփն (xupʻn) Assamese: ঢাকনি (dhakoni), ঢাকনি (dhakoni) Asturian: tapa f Azerbaijani: qapaq (az) Bashkir: ҡапҡас (qapqas) Basque: estalki (eu) Belarusian: ве́чка n (vjéčka), кры́шка f (krýška) Bengali: ঢাকনা (bn) (ḍhakona) Bhojpuri: ढक्कन (ḍhakkan) Bikol Central: takop (bcl) Bulgarian: капа́к (bg) m (kapák), похлупа́к (bg) m (pohlupák) Burmese: အဖုံး (my) (a.hpum:) Catalan: tapa (ca) f Chickasaw: pakna' Chinese: Mandarin: 蓋子／盖子 (zh) (gàizi), 蓋／盖 (zh) (gài) Czech: víko (cs) n, víčko (cs) n, poklička (cs) f Danish: låg n Dutch: deksel (nl) n Esperanto: kovrilo Estonian: kaas Faroese: lok n Finnish: kansi (fi) French: couvercle (fr) m Galician: tampa f, tapa (gl) f, tapadeira f, cobertoira (gl) f, tello m, testo (gl) m Georgian: ხუფი (xupi), თავსახური (tavsaxuri), ხუფი (xupi), სახურავი (saxuravi) German: Deckel (de) m Greek: καπάκι (el) (kapáki) Ancient: πῶμα n (pôma) Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: מִכְסֶה (he) m (mikhsé) Hindi: ढक्कन (hi) m (ḍhakkan) Hungarian: fedél (hu), fedő (hu), födél (hu), födő (hu) Icelandic: lok (is) n Indonesian: tudung (id) Italian: coperchio (it) m, tappo (it) m Japanese: 蓋 (ja) (ふた, futa) Kazakh: қақпақ (qaqpaq) Khmer: គ្រប (km) (krɔɔp), គំរប (kumrɔɔp) Korean: 뚜껑 (ko) (ttukkeong), 덮개 (ko) (deopgae) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: qepax (ku) f Kyrgyz: капкак (ky) (kapkak) Ladin: cuiertl m Lao: ຝາ (lo) (fā) Latin: operculum n Latvian: vāks m Lithuanian: kamštelis m, dangtis m Low German: German Low German: Deckel (nds) m Lü: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: капак (mk) m (kapak), поклопец m (poklopec) Malay: tudung (ms) Maori: please add this translation if you can Marathi: झाकण (jhākaṇ) Mongolian: Cyrillic: таг (mn) (tag) Nivkh: ырпс (ərps) Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: lokk (no) n Nynorsk: lokk n Occitan: cobertor (oc) m, cobertoira (oc) f, tapador (oc) m Odia: please add this translation if you can Ottoman Turkish: قپاق (kapak) Pashto: سرپوش m (sarpóš), سر پوښ m (sarpox̌) Persian: درپوش (fa) (darpuš), در (fa) (dar), سرپوش (fa) (sarpuš) Piedmontese: cjioèrca f Polish: nakrywka f, pokrywka (pl) f, wieko (pl) n, wieczko (pl) n Portuguese: tampa (pt) f Quechua: chipchi Romanian: capac (ro) n Russian: кры́шка (ru) f (krýška) Scottish Gaelic: mullach m, ceann m, faircill m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ка̀пак m, по̀клопац m Roman: kàpak (sh) m, pòklopac (sh) m Shan: please add this translation if you can Sicilian: cummogghiu (scn) m Sinhalese: ආවරණය (si) (āwaraṇaya) Slovak: viečko n, veko n Slovene: pokrov (sl) m inan, pokrovka (sl) f Spanish: tapa (es) f, tapadera (es) f, tapador m Swahili: kifuniko (sw) Swedish: lock (sv) c or n Tagalog: takip (tl) Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can Tajik: сарпӯш (sarpüš) Tamil: மூடி (ta) (mūṭi) Tatar: капкач (tt) (qapkaç) Telugu: మూత (te) (mūta) Thai: ฝา (th) (fǎa) Tibetan: ཁ་གཅོད (kha gcod) Tigrinya: መኽደን (mäxdän) Turkish: kapak (tr) Turkmen: gapak Ukrainian: кри́шка f (krýška) Urdu: ڈھکن m (ḍhakkan) Uyghur: قاپقاق (qapqaq) Uzbek: qopqoq (uz) Vietnamese: nắp (vi), vung (vi) Volapük: tegot (vo), (coffin) sarkategot, (trunk) trökategot, (chest) bogategot, (box) bokategot, (glass) glätategot, (mug) köpategot Welsh: caead (cy) m Yiddish: דעקל n (dekl) Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

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

to put a lid on something

Bulgarian: похлупвам (bg) (pohlupvam) Chinese: Hokkien: 崁, 蓋／盖 (zh-min-nan) Esperanto: kovri Finnish: kansittaa Galician: tapar (gl) Hungarian: fedő (hu) Ido: lidizar (io) Portuguese: tampar (pt), tamponar (pt)

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]

• Audio:

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Noun

lid m inan

1. people

Declension

	singular
nominative	lid
genitive	lidu
dative	lidu
accusative	lid
vocative	lide
locative	lidu
instrumental	lidem

Declension of lid (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

Derived terms

adjectives

• lidnatý
• lidový
• liduprázdný

 

nouns

• lidumil
• přelidnění
• zalidnění

 

Further reading

• “lid”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lid”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “lid”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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/

• Audio:

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• 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

   Synonym: 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
• gelid
• gemeenteraadslid
• kamerlid
• ledemaat
• ledenbestand
• ledental
• lidmaat
• lidrus
• 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-West Germanic *hlid, 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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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 English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lid/

Noun

lid n

1. ship, vessel

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

Derived terms

• lida
• lidmann

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

• 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

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lid	lids
	definite	liden	lidens
plural	indefinite	lider	liders
	definite	liderna	lidernas

Declension of lid

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

	singular	plural
nominative	lid	lids
genitive	lida	lidas
dative	lide	lides
accusative	lidi	lidis
vocative 1	o lid!	o lids!
predicative 2	lidu	lidus

declension of lid

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

Noun

lid

1. Soft mutation of llid.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
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.

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪt/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *liþuz. The plural leden is from Dutch.

Noun

lid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)

1. limb, member (of the body)
2. penis
3. part (of a whole)

Usage notes

• 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

lid n (plural leden)

1. member (of a group)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Noun

lid n (plural lidden, diminutive lidsje)

1. lid, cover
2. Short for eachlid (“eyelid”).