lid

From Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlíto (“post, trimmed log”) (compare Old Norse hlíð (“slope”), Welsh clwyd (“gate, hurdle”), Latin clitellae (“pack saddle”), Lithuanian šlìtė (“ladder”), pã-šlitas (“curved”), Russian калитка (kalitka, “gate”), Ancient Greek ἄκλιτος (áklitos, “stable”), δικλίς (diklís, “double-posted (doors, gates)”), Yazghulami xad 'ladder', Sanskrit श्रित (śrita, “standing on, lying on, being on, fixed on, situated in”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). More at lean.

• IPA^(key): /lɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

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 1227855:

     “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.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     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.

lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)

1. To put a lid on something.

• DIL, DLI, IDL

From Dutch lid.

lid (plural lede)

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

• lidmaat

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lid m

1. people

• lidový m
• lidnatý
• lidumil m
• zalidnění
• přelidnění

• lid in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lid in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old Norse hlít.

lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)

1. trust

lid

1. imperative of lide

• “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /lɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

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From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n or ledeken n)

1. member (of a group)

   Synonym: lidmaat

2. member (extremity of a body)

   Synonym: ledemaat

3. member, penis
4. (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]

   Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid

• baarlid
• gemeenteraadslid
• kamerlid
• ledemaat
• lidmaat
• raadslid
• regeringslid
• voorlid

• Afrikaans: lid

From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)

1. (rare) lid, cover

• ooglid

• lyd, lidde, lidd, lydde

From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

• IPA^(key): /lid/

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.

• English: lid
• Scots: lid

• “lid (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-29.

lid

1. imperative of lide

From Proto-Germanic *liþ-, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.

lid ?

1. member

• Middle High German: lit
  • Alemannic German: Lid
  • German: Lied

From Old Spanish, from Latin lītem, singular accusative of līs (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).

• IPA^(key): /lid/, [lið]
• Rhymes: -ið

lid f (plural lides)

1. lawsuit
2. fight

• (lawsuit): litigio
• (fight): lucha

• lidiar
• litigar
• litigio

• Rhymes: -iːd

lid

1. imperative of lida.

From German Lied.

lid (plural lids)

1. song

lid

1. Soft mutation of llid.

• li
• löyd

From Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīþō.

• IPA^(key): /liː/, /lʏɪ̯ːd/

  Rhymes: -íːð

  (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -íː, -íːð

  (í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íːð, -ýːð

lid f (definite singular lia or lida, dative lin)

1. mountain side, wooded slope of a mountain or summit[1]

It lies in the concept of this denomination in Westrobothnia, that the slope should be available either for cultivation or at least bear grass and healthy forest. Many villages and homes have hereof names.

• baklid