lid

Meanings

Plural: lids

Noun

either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
- "his lids would stay open no longer"
a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.
- "he raised the piano lid"
headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
The top or cover of a container.
A cap or hat.
One ounce of cannabis.
A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
An operculum or other lid-like cover.
A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
Clipping of eyelid.
A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).

Verb

To put a lid on (something).

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

chapeau, eyelid, hat, palpebra

Antonyms

unlid

Scrabble Score: 4

lid is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
lid is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lid is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

lid is a valid Words With Friends word