lid

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


lid

head

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


lid

(law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)

(obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken

nl-noun

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

leden (plural)
lidje (diminutive neuter)
ledeken (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: lid

→ Indonesian: lid

Negerhollands: lid, leden, leeden

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


lid

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)

leden (plural)
lidje (diminutive neuter)

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


lid

“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.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.

the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders

(surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.

(slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.

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.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2:

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[…].

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

(microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.

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.

2011, Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership, page 11:

(figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.

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

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”).


lid

(transitive) To put a lid on (something).

en-verb

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

lids (present singular third-person)
lidding (participle present)
lidded (participle past)
lidded (past)


lid

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


lid

A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.

The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.

The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.

English: lid

Scots: lid

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


lid

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


lid

Middle High German: lit

Alemannic German: Lid

German: Lied

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


lid

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


lid

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

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


lid

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nyindrou.


lid

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


lid

head

lid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)

lidden (plural)
lea (plural)
lidsje (diminutive)

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


lid

lid n (plural lidden, diminutive lidsje)