lid

English

/lɪd/

noun
Definitions
  • The top or cover of a container.
  • (slang) A cap or hat.
  • (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
  • (surfing) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
  • (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
  • (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
  • (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 "put a lid putting a lid" on something.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English lid inherited from Old English hlid (lid, covering, opening, door, gate, cover) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (lid, door, cover, eyelid) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitóm (post, trimmed log), *ḱley- (lean, shelter, cover, slope, incline, leanVerb).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ḱley-

Gloss

lean, shelter, cover, slope, incline, leanVerb

Concept
Semantic Field

The body

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

坂

Emoji

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