lid
/lɪd/
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dialectal/lɛd/
lid noun: the top or cover of a container. Also the clipping of eyelid.
Noun
lid (plural lids)
- The top or cover of a container.
- A cap or hat.
- “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...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
- One ounce of cannabis.
- A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
- Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.2001, realsurf.com message board
- the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders2003 August, Kneelo Knews
- An operculum or other lid-like cover.
- A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
- In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
- A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
- 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
- A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
- The sky.
- One's mind.
Verb
lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)
- To put a lid on (something).
- Antonyms:
- unlid
Also used as
lid is also the clipping of eyelid.
lid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lid in Hindi
- top or cover
- ढक्कन ḍhakkan
lid in Tamil
- top or cover
- மூடி mūṭi
lid in Marathi
- top or cover
- झाकण jhākaṇ
lid in Urdu
- top or cover
- ڈَھکَّن ḍhakkan, سَر پوش sar poś, ڈَھکْنا ḍhaknā
More languagesFewer languages
- lid in Bengali
- ঢাকনা ḍhakona
- lid in Telugu
- మూత mūta
- lid in Sinhala
- ආවරණය āwaraṇaya
- lid in Assamese
- ঢাকনি dhakoni
- lid in Pashto
- سرپوش sarpóš, سر پوښ sarpox̌
- lid in Tagalog
- takip
- lid in Arabic
- غِطَاء ḡiṭāʔ
- lid in Malay
- tudung
- lid in Indonesian
- tudung, tutup
- lid in Thai
- ฝา fǎa
- lid in Vietnamese
- nắp, vung
- lid in Myanmar
- အဖုံး a.hpum:
Examples of lid in a sentence
- It's supposed to be a surprise, so try to keep a lid on it, will you?
- Wait for the temperature to come down to a reasonable level before touching the lid.
- Oh, put a lid on it already! I heard you the first fourteen times.
Antonyms of lid
Forms of lid
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lids |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lids |
| present participle | lidding |
| past participle | lidded |
| past | lidded |
Origin of 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”).
Words formed from lid
- unlid
- blow one's lid
- blow the lid off
- bootlid
- call a lid
- decklid
- delid
- earlid
- eyelid
- flip one's lid
- flip the lid
- flip your lid
- keep a lid on
- keep the lid on something
- someone
- lidder
- lidful
- lidless
- lid-lifter
- lidlike
- lidlock
- lift the lid
- potlid
- put a lid on it
- put the lid on
- put the tin lid on it
- skid lid
- Sutton Hoo purse-lid
- there is a lid for every pot
- there's a lid for every pot
- tin lid
- trunklid
Phrases with lid
- calls a lid
- called a lid
- put a lid on
- calling a lid
- flips the lid
- kept a lid on
- lifts the lid
- puts a lid on
- blew one's lid
- keeps a lid on
- lifted the lid
- blown one's lid
20 more phrasesFewer phrases
- blows one's lid
- flipped the lid
- flips one's lid
- lifting the lid
- puts the lid on
- blew the lid off
- flipping the lid
- keeping a lid on
- puts a lid on it
- putting a lid on
- blowing one's lid
- blown the lid off
- blows the lid off
- flipped one's lid
- flipping one's lid
- putting the lid on
- blowing the lid off
- putting a lid on it
- puts the tin lid on it
- putting the tin lid on it
Words that rhyme with lid
Questions about lid
- What does lid mean?
- Lid means the top or cover of a container.
- What is lid in Hindi?
- Lid in Hindi is ढक्कन (ḍhakkan). See Lid meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lid?
- Lid can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lid?
- Lid is pronounced /lɪd/.
- What is the plural of lid?
- The plural of lid is lids.
Words near lid in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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