lid
IPA: ɫˈɪd
noun
- The top or cover of a container.
- (slang) A cap or hat.
- (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
- (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) 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 "putting a lid" on something.
- (Liverpool) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)
- Clipping of eyelid. [A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.]
verb
- (transitive) To put a lid on (something).
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Examples of "lid" in Sentences
- The elclat of the city lid up the night.
- Place the lids in boiling water to sterilize.
- The black handle on the lid is the pump handle.
- The lid is similar to that of the lower pitchers.
- A lid closes the top of the cylindrical container.
- The gasket portion of the lid is relatively fragile.
- Glands are evenly distributed on the underside of the lid.
- The container is sealed at the top with an airtight alumina lid.
- A flange was added to the lid to keep the coals on the lid and out of the food.
- After opening the lid cannot be used for the reclosure of the packing container.
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- Not only are we back in the frying pan with the heat turned up, but the lid is now being applied.
- Remove the lid from the pot and continue roasting the chicken another 15 minutes or so, until done.
- Usually when they're done for the day, they give us what they call a lid, saying don't expect any more news.
- The bivalves arrive in a big, round pan whose lid is lifted at the table, releasing a cloud of steam and aromatics.
- Take the lid from a mayo jar, jelly jar. juat one that will fit your palm, get a threaded bolt i use a 3/8s with about 1&1/2 in threads.
- Pick up the lid and bring it very slowly to the container — the fruit flies seem to have good eye sight and/or are very sensitive to any movements around them — and when the lid is just about over the opening, bring it down quickly to seal the container.
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