Meaning

12 senses
  1. The 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.

  2. (slang)A cap or hat.

  3. (slang)One ounce of cannabis.

  4. (Australia, slang)A bodyboard or bodyboarder.

  5. An operculum or other lid-like cover.

  6. (slang)A motorcyclist's crash helmet.

  7. (slang)In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.

  8. 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.

  10. (slang)A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).

  11. The sky.

  12. One's mind.

Examples

138 sentences
  1. The lid is closed.

    Кришка закрита. — deniko

    ruКрышка закрыта. — Balamax

    deDer Deckel ist zu. — Tamy

  2. I closed the lid.

    Я закрив кришку. — deniko

    ruЯ закрыл крышку. — marafon

  3. I lifted the lid.

    Я підняв кришку. — deniko

    ruЯ снял крышку. — marafon

  4. I unscrewed the lid.

    Я відкрутив кришку. — deniko

    ruЯ отвинтил крышку. — astru

  5. This lid belongs with that jar.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
top or cover:
Русский
By meaning 1
top or cover:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
top or cover:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *h

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”).

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Forms

plural: lids
Singularlid
Plurallids

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye:eyelidpalpebra
  • headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim:hatchapeau

Word family

16 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • lifted the lid
  • put the lid
  • the lid off
  • lid on the

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary 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.

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