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lid

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English

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Etymology

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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”).

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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[1]:
      Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
    • 2003 August, Kneelo Knews‎[2]:
      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)

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Verb

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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

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Etymology

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From Dutch lid.

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lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)

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

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Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.

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lid m inan

  1. people

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Declension of lid (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
singular
nominative lid
genitive lidu
dative lidu
accusative lid
vocative lide
locative lidu
instrumental lidem

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Further reading

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  • “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

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hlít.

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

  1. trust

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lid

  1. imperative of lide

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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

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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
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  • Afrikaans: lid
  • → Indonesian: lid
  • Negerhollands: lid, leden, leeden

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

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lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)

  1. (rare) lid, cover
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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɪt]
  • Hyphenation: lid

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lid (first-person possessive lidku, second-person possessive lidmu, third-person possessive lidnya)

  1. (colloquial) member (of a group).
    Synonym: anggota

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Middle English

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

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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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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lid

  1. imperative of lide

Norwegian Nynorsk

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lid

  1. present tense of lide
  2. imperative of lide

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lid f (plural lidi)

  1. (pre-1917 or dialectal) a sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest. Alternative form of li.

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

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lid n

  1. ship, vessel
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

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Old High German

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Etymology

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

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lid ?

  1. member

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  • Middle High German: lit

Spanish

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Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlid/ [ˈlið̞]
  • Rhymes: -id
  • Syllabification: lid

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lid f (plural lides)

  1. lawsuit
    Synonym: litigio
  2. fight
    Synonym: lucha

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Swedish

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Inherited from Old Swedish liþ, from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. Cognate of Latin clīvus, Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma), Old English hliþ.

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lid c

  1. A slope of a hill.

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Declension of lid 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lid liden lider liderna
Genitive lids lidens liders lidernas

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lid

  1. imperative of lida

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Volapük

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From German Lied.

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lid (nominative plural lids)

  1. song

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declension of lid
singular plural
nominative lid lids
genitive lida lidas
dative lide lides
accusative lidi lidis
vocative 1 o lid! o lids!
predicative 2 lidu lidus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

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lid

  1. Soft mutation of llid.

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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.
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