What does LID mean?

Definitions for LID
lɪdlid

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eyelid, lid, palpebranoun

    either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye

    "his lids would stay open no longer"

  2. lidnoun

    a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.

    "he raised the piano lid"

  3. hat, chapeau, lidnoun

    headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim

Wiktionary

  1. lidnoun

    top or cover of a container

  2. lidnoun

    a cap or hat

  3. lidnoun

    one ounce of cannabis

  4. lidnoun

    (surfing slang, mainly Australia) bodyboard or bodyboarder

  5. lidnoun

    a motorcyclist's crash helmet

  6. lidnoun

    in amateur radio, an incompetent operator

  7. lidverb

    to put a lid on something

  8. Etymology: hlid, from hlidan (compare Dutch lid, German Lid, Swedish lid), from ḱlíto (compare Old Norse hlíð, Welsh clwyd, Latin clitellae, Lithuanian šlìtė, pã-šlitas, Russian калитка, Ancient Greek ἄκλιτος, δικλίς, Yazghulami xad 'ladder', Sanskrit श्रित, from ḱley-. More at lean.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lid

    Etymology: hlid , Saxon; lied, German.

    Hope, instead of flying off with the rest, stuck so close to the lid of the cup, that it was shut down upon her. Addison.

    Do not for ever with thy veiled lids,
    Seek for thy noble father in the dust. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

    Our eyes have lids, our ears still ope we keep. Davies.

    The fields fair eyes saw her, and saw no more,
    But shut their flow’ry lids for ever night,
    And winter strew’d her way. Richard Crashaw.

    That eye dropp’d sense distinct and clear,
    As any muse’s tongue could speak;
    When from its lid a pearly tear
    Ran trickling down her beauteous cheek. Matthew Prior.

    The rod of Hermes
    To sleep could mortal eye-lids fix,
    And drive departed souls to Styx:
    That rod was just a type of Sid’s,
    Which o’er a British senate’s lids
    Could scatter opium full as well,
    And drive as many souls to hell. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. lid

    A lid is a removable or hinged cover for the top of a container, pot, jar, or another similar object, designed to keep the contents enclosed, protected or fresh. It can also refer to anything that serves to prevent something from spreading or escaping.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lidnoun

    that which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk

  2. Lidnoun

    the cover of the eye; an eyelid

  3. Lidnoun

    the cover of the spore cases of mosses

  4. Lidnoun

    a calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti

  5. Lidnoun

    the top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts

  6. Etymology: [AS. hlid, fr. hldan (in comp.) to cover, shut; akin to OS. hldan (in comp.), D. lid lid, OHG. hlit, G. augenlid eyelid, Icel. hli gate, gateway. 40.]

Wikidata

  1. Lid

    A lid, also known as a cap, is part of a container, and serves as the cover or seal, usually one that completely closes the object.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Lid

    lid, n. a cover: that which shuts a vessel: the cover of the eye.—adjs. Lid′ded, having a lid or lids; Lid′less, without lid or lids. [A.S. hlid (Dut. lid)—hlídan, to cover.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. lid

    See Ordnance, Carriages for.

Rap Dictionary

  1. lidnoun

    Head, top.

  2. lidnoun

    Hat, especially a baseball cap.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'LID' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4613

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'LID' in Nouns Frequency: #2462

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of LID in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of LID in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of LID in a Sentence

  1. Emily Estefan:

    At that moment, I was so angry that I was about to blow the lid off of everything, and then I thought : ‘ My whole success is gon na turn into him ! CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

  2. John Kilduff:

    The rise in gasoline and distillate inventories will weigh on the complex further and should keep a lid on any rebound in crude oil prices from the surprise drawdown.

  3. Barnaby Martin:

    If there’s one metric that defines or reflects how much investors need to reach for yield, it is this negative real yield backdrop, the irony is that even buying high yield debt doesn’t help you beat inflation in Europe at the moment. It really reflects how much the ECB is keeping a lid on fixed income.

  4. Mark Twain:

    We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

  5. House Democrats on Capitol Hill:

    Based on what I know now, and I will be being briefed as soon as I finish addressing you, this is an important step in putting the lid on Iran's nuclear program.

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