Meaning
12 sensesThe top or cover of a container.
Deckel
кры́шкаkrýška
кри́шкаkrýška
a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.
(slang)A cap or hat.
(slang)One ounce of cannabis.
(Australia, slang)A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
An operculum or other lid-like cover.
(slang)A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
(slang)In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
(figuratively)A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
(slang)A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
The sky.
One's mind.
Examples
138 sentencesThe lid is closed.
Кришка закрита. — deniko
ruКрышка закрыта. — Balamax
deDer Deckel ist zu. — Tamy
I closed the lid.
Я закрив кришку. — deniko
ruЯ закрыл крышку. — marafon
I lifted the lid.
Я підняв кришку. — deniko
ruЯ снял крышку. — marafon
I unscrewed the lid.
Я відкрутив кришку. — deniko
ruЯ отвинтил крышку. — astru
This lid belongs with that jar.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hInherited 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”).
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Forms
plural: lidsSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
16 related wordsCollocations
4 patterns- lifted the lid
- put the lid
- the lid off
- lid on the
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.