lid

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

To put a lid on (something).

Opposite of

unlid

Synonyms

cover

cap

top

🔝

eyelid

stopper

cork

covering

hat

👒

hood

palpebra

jacket

chapeau

door

🚪

eye

👁️

wrapper

head

plug

blanket

roof

jar

🫙

landing deck

ledge

limit

lip

loosen

mantel

pair

pants

reeding

rim

set-off

shell

🐚

shield

🛡️

shroud

spread

teat

twice

two

valve

wrap

wrapping

fall-board

flanch

fallboard

shaft collar

Flg flange

protecting case

lock entrance

binding

top of head

Translations

couvercle

Deckel

deksel

coperchio

tapa

tampa

palpebra

tapadera

omslag

tapa

paupière

Lid

καπάκι

párpado

kapak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: lid

Inherited from Old English: hlid

Cognate with Dutch: lid

Cognate with German: Lid

Cognate with Swedish: lid

In summary

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”).