English Explanatory Dictionary

lid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The top or cover of a container.
  2. A cap or hat.
  3. One ounce of cannabis.
  4. A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
  5. An operculum or other lid-like cover.
  6. A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
  7. In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
  8. Clipping of eyelid.
  9. A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
  10. A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
  11. A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
  12. The sky.
verb
  1. To put a lid on (something).

Pronunciation

/lɪd/ en-us-lid.ogg en-au-lid.ogg /lɛd/

Word forms

lid lids lidding lidded

Etymology

Inherited 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”).

Antonyms

unlid

Derived words

blow one's lid blow the lid off bootlid call a lid decklid delid earlid eyelid flip one's lid flip the lid flip your lid keep a lid on keep the lid on something someone lidder lidful lidless lid-lifter lidlike lidlock lift the lid potlid put a lid on it put the lid on put the tin lid on it skid lid Sutton Hoo purse-lid there is a lid for every pot there's a lid for every pot tin lid trunklid unlid
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