# lid
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Nyindrou terms

## English
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪd

### Noun

lid (plural lids)
* The top or cover of a container.
* (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.
* (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
* (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
** 2001, realsurf.com message board‎:Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
** 2003 August, Kneelo Knews‎:the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
* (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
* (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
* 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 […].
* (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
* (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.
* (Liverpool) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)

#### Derived terms

* blow one's lid
* blow the lid off
* call a lid
* eyelid
* flip one's lid
* flip the lid
* flip your lid
* keep a lid on
* keep the lid on something/someone
* lidless
* lid-lifter
* lift the lid
* put a lid on it
* put the lid on
* put the tin lid on it
* skid lid
* there is a lid for every pot
* there's a lid for every pot
* tin lid

#### Translations
### Verb

lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)
* (transitive) To put a lid on (something).
    Antonym: unlid

#### Derived terms

* unlid

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* -dil, -dil-, DIL, DLI, IDL, dil-

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch lid.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [lət]

### Noun

lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)
* member (of a group or club)
* member, limb

#### Derived terms

* lidmaat

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɪt]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lid m inan
* people

#### Derived terms

* lidnatý
* lidový
* liduprázdný
* lidumil
* přelidnění
* zalidnění

### Further reading

* “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), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse hlít.

### Noun

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

### Verb

lid
* imperative of lide

### Further reading

* “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɪt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: lid
* Rhymes: -ɪt

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n or ledeken n)
* member (of a group)
    Synonym: lidmaat
* member, limb (extremity of a body)
    Synonym: ledemaat
* member, penis
    Synonym: penis
* (law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)
* (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]
    Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid

##### Derived terms

* baarlid
* erelid
* gelid
* gemeenteraadslid
* kaderlid
* kamerlid
* ledemaat
* ledenbestand
* ledental
* lidmaat
* lidrus
* lidwoord
* raadslid
* regeringslid
* tweeledig
* voorlid

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)
* (rare) lid, cover

##### Derived terms

* ooglid

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɪt]
* Hyphenation: lid

### Noun

lid (plural lid-lid)
* (colloquial) member (of a group).
    Synonym: anggota

### Further reading

* “lid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* lyd, lidde, lidd, lydde

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lid/

### Noun

lid (plural liddis)
* 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.
* (rare) The top layer of a pastry dish.

#### Descendants

* English: lid
* Scots: lid

#### References

* “lid, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-29.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

lid
* imperative of lide

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* lir, lider

#### Verb

lid
* present tense of lide
* imperative of lide

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liː/
* (Southern Møre dialect) IPA: /liːd/

#### Noun

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

## Old English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lid/

### Noun

lid n
* ship, vessel
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

#### Derived terms

* lida
* lidmann

## Old High German
### Etymology

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

### Noun

lid ?
* member

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: lit
** Alemannic German: Lid
** German: Lied

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlid/ [ˈlið̞]
* Rhymes: -id
* Syllabification: lid

### Noun

lid f (plural lides)
* lawsuit
    Synonym: litigio
* fight
    Synonym: lucha

#### Derived terms

* en buena lid

#### Related terms

* lidiar
* litigar
* litigio

### Further reading

* “lid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -iːd

### Noun

lid c
* A slope of a hill.

#### Declension
### Verb

lid
* imperative of lida

### Further reading

* lid in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

## Volapük
### Etymology

From German Lied.

### Noun

lid (nominative plural lids)
* song

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

## Welsh
### Noun

lid
* Soft mutation of llid.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## West Frisian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɪt/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

lid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)
* limb, member (of the body)
* penis
* part (of a whole)

##### Usage notes

* The plural lea occurs only in sense 1 and usually in a collective sense, i.e. referring to all of a person’s limbs.

#### Noun

lid n (plural leden)
* member (of a group)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

#### Noun

lid n (plural lidden, diminutive lidsje)
* lid, cover
* Short for eachlid (“eyelid”).