hat, chapeau, lid
(noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
lid
(noun) 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”
eyelid, lid, palpebra
(noun) either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye; “his lids would stay open no longer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lid (plural lids)
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.
Clipping of eyelid.
(microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)
(transitive) To put a lid on (something).
Antonym: unlid
• DIL, DLI, IDL
Source: Wiktionary
Lid, n. Etym: [AS. hlid, fr. hlidan (in comp.) to cover, shut; akin to OS. hlidan (in comp.), D. lid, OHG. hlit, G. augenlid eyelid, Icel. hli gate, gateway.
1. That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc. ; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
2. The cover of the eye; an eyelid. Shak. Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid. Byron.
3. (Bot.) (a) The cover of the spore cases of mosses. (b) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti. (c) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
