noun
Meaning 1
The top or cover of a container.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
lid
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/lɪd/
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dialectal, obsolete: /lɛd/
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noun
Meaning 2
A cap or hat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 3
One ounce of cannabis.
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Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 4
A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, slang
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, surfing
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noun
Meaning 5
An operculum or other lid-like cover.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
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Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 7
In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 8
Clipping of eyelid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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noun
Meaning 9
A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
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noun
Meaning 10
A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 11
A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Qualifier: Liverpool
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noun
Meaning 12
The sky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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noun
Meaning 13
One's mind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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verb
Meaning 14
To put a lid on (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: unlid
noun
Meaning 15
headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hat, chapeau
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: headdress, headgear
Narrower terms: bearskin, busby, shako, boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat, bonnet, poke bonnet, bowler hat, bowler, derby hat, derby, plug hat, campaign hat, cavalier hat, slouch hat, cocked hat, cowboy hat, ten-gallon hat, deerstalker, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper, beaver, dunce cap, dunce's cap, fool's cap, fedora, felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby, fur hat, millinery, woman's hat, shovel hat, snap-brim hat, sombrero, sou'wester, sunhat, sun hat, titfer, toque, tyrolean, tirolean
noun
Meaning 16
a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he raised the piano lid
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: top, cover
Narrower terms: trunk lid
noun
Meaning 17
either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his lids would stay open no longer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: eyelid, palpebra
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: protective fold
History
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”).
Across languages
Translations
168 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: kapak — top or cover
- Albanian: mloi (gheg) — top or cover
- Amharic: ክዳን (kədan) — top or cover
- Arabic: غِطَاء (ḡiṭāʔ) — top or cover
- Armenian: կափարիչ (kapʻaričʻ) — top or cover
- Armenian: խուփ (xupʻ) — top or cover
- Old Armenian: կափարիչ (kapʻaričʻ) — top or cover
- Old Armenian: խուփ (xupʻ) — top or cover
- Assamese: ঢাকনি (dhakoni) — top or cover
- Asturian: tapa — top or cover
- Azerbaijani: qapaq — top or cover
- Bashkir: ҡапҡас (qapqas) — top or cover
- Basque: estalki — top or cover
- Belarusian: ве́чка (vjéčka) — top or cover
- Belarusian: кры́шка (krýška) — top or cover
- Bengali: ঢাকনা (ḍhakona) — top or cover
- Bhojpuri: ढक्कन (ḍhakkan) — top or cover
- Central Bikol: takop — top or cover
- Bulgarian: капа́к (kapák) — top or cover
- Bulgarian: похлупа́к (pohlupák) — top or cover
- Burmese: အဖုံး (a.hpum:) — top or cover
- Catalan: tapa — top or cover
- Chickasaw: pakna' — top or cover
- Chinese Cantonese: 蓋 /盖 (goi3) — top or cover
- Chinese: гэзы (gezɨ) — top or cover
- Chinese Mandarin: 蓋子 /盖子 (gàizi) — top or cover
- Chinese Mandarin: 蓋 /盖 (gài) — top or cover
- Czech: víko — top or cover
- Czech: víčko — top or cover
- Czech: poklička — top or cover
- Danish: låg — top or cover
- Dutch: deksel — top or cover
- Esperanto: kovrilo — top or cover
- Estonian: kaas — top or cover
- Faroese: lok — top or cover
- Finnish: kansi — top or cover
- French: couvercle — top or cover
- Galician: tampa — top or cover
- Galician: tapa — top or cover
- Galician: tapadeira — top or cover
- Galician: cobertoira — top or cover
- Galician: tello — top or cover
- Galician: testo — top or cover
- Georgian: ხუფი (xupi) — top or cover
- Georgian: თავსახური (tavsaxuri) — top or cover
- Georgian: სახურავი (saxuravi) — top or cover
- German: Deckel — top or cover
- Greek: καπάκι (kapáki) — top or cover
- Ancient Greek: πῶμα (pôma) — top or cover
- Hawaiian: po'i — top or cover
- Hebrew: מִכְסֶה (mikhsé) — top or cover
- Hindi: ढक्कन (ḍhakkan) — top or cover
- Hungarian: fedél — top or cover
- Hungarian: fedő — top or cover
- Hungarian: födél — top or cover
- Hungarian: födő — top or cover
- Icelandic: lok — top or cover
- Indonesian: tudung — top or cover
- Indonesian: tutup — top or cover
- Italian: coperchio — top or cover
- Italian: tappo — top or cover
- Japanese: 蓋 (futa) — top or cover
- Kazakh: қақпақ (qaqpaq) — top or cover
- Khmer: គ្រប (krɔɔp) — top or cover
- Khmer: គំរប (kumrɔɔp) — top or cover
- Korean: 뚜껑 (ttukkeong) — top or cover
- Korean: 덮개 (deopgae) — top or cover
- Northern Kurdish: qepax — top or cover
- Kyrgyz: капкак (kapkak) — top or cover
- Ladin: cuiertl — top or cover
- Lao: ຝາ (fā) — top or cover
- Latin: operculum — top or cover
- Latvian: vāks — top or cover
- Lithuanian: kamštelis — top or cover
- Lithuanian: dangtis — top or cover
- Low German: Deckel — top or cover
- Lü: ᦚᦱ (ḟaa) — top or cover
- Macedonian: капак (kapak) — top or cover
- Macedonian: поклопец (poklopec) — top or cover
- Malagasy: takotra — top or cover
- Malay: tudung — top or cover
- Māori: taupoki — top or cover
- Māori: kopani — top or cover
- Marathi: झाकण (jhākaṇ) — top or cover
- Mongolian: таг (tag) — top or cover
- Nivkh: ырпс (ərps) — top or cover
- Norwegian Bokmål: lokk — top or cover
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lokk — top or cover
- Occitan: cobertor — top or cover
- Occitan: cobertoira — top or cover
- Occitan: tapador — top or cover
- Pashto: سرپوش (sarpóš) — top or cover
- Pashto: سر پوښ (sarpox̌) — top or cover
- Iranian Persian: سَر (sar) — top or cover
- Iranian Persian: دَر (dar) — top or cover
- Iranian Persian: سَرْپوش (sarpuš) — top or cover
- Iranian Persian: دَرْپوش (darpuš) — top or cover
- Piedmontese: cjioèrca — top or cover
- Polish: nakrywka — top or cover
- Polish: pokrywka — top or cover
- Polish: wieko — top or cover
- Polish: wieczko — top or cover
- Portuguese: tampa — top or cover
- Quechua: chipchi — top or cover
- Romanian: capac — top or cover
- Russian: кры́шка (krýška) — top or cover
- Scottish Gaelic: mullach — top or cover
- Scottish Gaelic: ceann — top or cover
- Scottish Gaelic: faircill — top or cover
- Serbo-Croatian: ка̀пак — top or cover
- Serbo-Croatian: по̀клопац — top or cover
- Serbo-Croatian: kàpak — top or cover
- Serbo-Croatian: pòklopac — top or cover
- Sicilian: cummogghiu — top or cover
- Sinhalese: ආවරණය (āwaraṇaya) — top or cover
- Slovak: viečko — top or cover
- Slovak: veko — top or cover
- Slovene: pokrov — top or cover
- Slovene: pokrovka — top or cover
- Southern Altai: какпак (kakpak) — top or cover
- Spanish: tapa — top or cover
- Spanish: tapadera — top or cover
- Spanish: tapador — top or cover
- Swahili: kifuniko — top or cover
- Swedish: lock — top or cover
- Tagalog: takip — top or cover
- Tajik: сарпӯш (sarpüš) — top or cover
- Tamil: மூடி (mūṭi) — top or cover
- Tatar: капкач (qapqaç) — top or cover
- Telugu: మూత (mūta) — top or cover
- Thai: ฝา (fǎa) — top or cover
- Tibetan: ཁ་གཅོད (kha gcod) — top or cover
- Tigrinya: መኽደን (mäxdän) — top or cover
- Turkish: kapak — top or cover
- Ottoman Turkish: قپاق (kapak) — top or cover
- Ottoman Turkish: طباق (tabak) — top or cover
- Turkmen: gapak — top or cover
- Ukrainian: кри́шка (krýška) — top or cover
- Urdu: ڈَھکَّن (ḍhakkan) — top or cover
- Urdu: سَر پوش (sar poś) — top or cover
- Urdu: ڈَھکْنا (ḍhaknā) — top or cover
- Uyghur: قاپقاق (qapqaq) — top or cover
- Uzbek: qopqoq — top or cover
- Vietnamese: nắp — top or cover
- Vietnamese: vung — top or cover
- Volapük: tegot — top or cover
- Volapük: sarkategot — top or cover
- Volapük: trökategot — top or cover
- Volapük: bogategot — top or cover
- Volapük: bokategot — top or cover
- Volapük: glätategot — top or cover
- Volapük: köpategot — top or cover
- Welsh: caead — top or cover
- Yiddish: דעקל (dekl) — top or cover
- Zhuang: fa — top or cover
- Bulgarian: похлупвам (pohlupvam) — to put a lid on something
- Chinese: 崁 — to put a lid on something
- Chinese: 蓋 /盖 (zh-min-nan) — to put a lid on something
- Czech: zavíčkovat — to put a lid on something
- Czech: přikrýt víkem — to put a lid on something
- Czech: zakrýt víkem — to put a lid on something
- Esperanto: kovri — to put a lid on something
- Finnish: kansittaa — to put a lid on something
- Galician: tapar — to put a lid on something
- Hungarian: fedő — to put a lid on something
- Ido: lidizar — to put a lid on something
- Portuguese: tampar — to put a lid on something
- Portuguese: tamponar — to put a lid on something