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English

Etymology

From Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlid? (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?litós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

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.
   • 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

5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
7. Clipping of eyelid.

   • 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 […].

8. (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
9. (figuratively) 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. (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^(key): [l?t]

Noun

lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)

1. member (of a group or club)
2. member, limb

Derived terms

• lidmaat

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *?ud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?t]

Noun

lid m

1. people

Declension

Derived terms

• lidový
• lidnatý
• lidumil
• zalidn?ní
• p?elidn?ní

Further reading

• lid in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• lid in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hlít.

Noun

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

1. trust

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lide

Further reading

• “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t/
• Hyphenation: lid
• Rhymes: -?t

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)

1. member (of a group)

   Synonym: lidmaat

2. member, limb (extremity of a body)

   Synonym: ledemaat

3. member, penis
4. (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]

   Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid

Derived terms

• baarlid
• erelid
• gemeenteraadslid
• kamerlid
• ledemaat
• ledenbestand
• ledental
• lidmaat
• lidwoord
• raadslid
• regeringslid
• voorlid

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lid
• ? Indonesian: lid

Etymology 2

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

Noun

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)

1. (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^(key): [?l?t]
• Hyphenation: lid

Noun

lid (first-person possessive lidku, second-person possessive lidmu, third-person possessive lidnya)

1. (colloquial) member (of a group).

   Synonym: anggota

Further reading

• “lid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lyd, lidde, lidd, lydde

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lid/

Noun

lid (plural liddis)

1. A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.
2. The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.
3. The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.
4. (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

1. imperative of lide

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• lir (short form)
• lider (non-standard since 2012)

Verb

lid

1. present tense of lida and lide
2. imperative of lida and lide

Etymology 2

Noun

lid f (definite singular lidi, indefinite plural lider, definite plural liderne)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by li

Old High German

Etymology

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

Noun

lid ?

1. member

Descendants

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin l?tem, singular accusative of l?s (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lid/, [?lið?]
• Rhymes: -ið

Noun

lid f (plural lides)

1. lawsuit

   Synonym: litigio

2. fight

   Synonym: lucha

Derived terms

• en buena lid

Related terms

• lidiar
• litigar
• litigio

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lida.

Volapük

Etymology

From German Lied.

Noun

lid (nominative plural lids)

1. song

Declension

Welsh

Noun

lid

1. Soft mutation of llid.

Mutation

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• li
• löyd

Etymology

From Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hl?þ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/, /l????d/

  Rhymes: -í?ð

  (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -í?, -í?ð

  (í-ý merger) Rhymes: -í?ð, -ý?ð

Noun

lid f (definite singular lia or lida, dative lin)

1. mountain side, wooded slope of a mountain or summit

Usage notes

It lies in the concept of this denomination in Westrobothnia, that the slope should be available either for cultivation or at least bear grass and healthy forest. Many villages and homes have hereof names.

Derived terms

• baklid

References

English

Etymology 1

From French enveloppe.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n.v?.l??p/, /??n.v?.l??p/
• (General American) enPR: än?v?l?p', ?n?v?l?p'; IPA^(key): /??n.v??lo?p/, /??n.v??lo?p/

Noun

envelope (plural envelopes)

1. A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
2. Something that envelops; a wrapping.
3. A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
4. (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
5. (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
6. (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
7. (computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
8. (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
9. (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
10. (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
11. An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

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Synonyms

• (something that envelops): wrapper
• (bag containing the lifting gas): gasbag

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on envelopes used for mailing
• Wikipedia article on envelopes in geometry

Etymology 2

See envelop.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n-v?l'?p, IPA^(key): /?n?v?l?p/
• for audio, see envelop

Verb

envelope (third-person singular simple present envelopes, present participle enveloping, simple past and past participle enveloped)

1. Archaic form of envelop.
   • 1877, James Booth, A Treatise on Some New Geometrical Methods (page 209)

     Again, if the plane of the impressed couple intersects the mean plane between N and C, it will envelope the cone whose focals are ON, ON?, and whose internal axis is therefore OA.

Portuguese

Etymology

From French enveloppe, from envelopper.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.v?.?l?.p?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.ve.?l?.pi/
• Hyphenation: en?ve?lo?pe

Noun

envelope m (plural envelopes)

1. envelope