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单词 lid
释义 lid
I. \ˈlid\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hlid lid, gate, opening; akin to Old Frisian hlid cover, eyelid, Old High German lit, hlit cover, Old Norse hlith opening, door, gate, Gothic hleithra hut, tent, Old English hleonian, hlinian to lean — more at lean
1. : something that covers the opening of a hollow container (as a vessel or box) : a movable cover
 < a trunk lid >
 < a piano lid >
 < simple pine chests with lift lidsAntiques >
2. : eyelid
3. dialect : either cover of a book
4.
 a. : the operculum in mosses
 b. : the cap of a pyxidium
5. slang : hat
 < in a slaphappy painter's cap that looked like an Italian officer's lid — Saul Bellow >
6. : a force that confines or represses
 < if he doesn't clamp the lid down hard on his feelings — Constance Foster >
specifically : an official curb or check
 < clapped a lid on further release of information >
 < votes to clamp a four-month lid on wages and prices — Current History >
 < the lid was clamped on … gambling in nightclubs — Newsweek >
II. transitive verb
(lidded ; lidded ; lidding ; lids)
: to cover with or as if with a lid
 < the classified fruit is then lidded … ready for shipment — Westralian Farmers Co-op Gazette >
 < she … lidded her eyes — Wright Morris >
III. noun
: an ounce of marijuana
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