Definition lid

Etymology

From Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlíto (“post, trimmed log”) (compare Old Norse hlíð (“slope”), Welsh clwyd (“gate, hurdle”), Latin clitellae (“pack saddle”), Lithuanian šlìtė (“ladder”), pã-šlitas (“curved”), Russian калитка (kalitka, “gate”), Ancient Greek ἄκλιτος (áklitos, “stable”), δικλίς (diklís, “double-posted (doors, gates)”), Yazghulami xad 'ladder', Sanskrit श्रित (śrita, “standing on, lying on, being on, fixed on, situated in”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). More at lean.

Noun

lid (plural lids)

1. The top or cover of a container.
2. (slang) A cap or hat.
3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
4. (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
7. Clipping of eyelid.
8. (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.

Verb

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

1. To put a lid on something.

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