Latch vs Lid - What's the difference?
latch | lid |
A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
A flip-flop electronic circuit
(obsolete) A latching.
(obsolete) A crossbow.
(obsolete) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
To close or lock as if with a latch
To catch; lay hold of
:* Where hearing should not latch them. — Shakespeare, MacBeth ,
(obsolete) To smear; to anoint.
The top or cover of a container.
(lb) A cap or hat.
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(lb) One ounce of cannabis.
A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
*2001 ,
*:Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
*2003 August,
*:the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
(lb) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
(lb) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
(lb) Eyelid.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
To put a lid on something.
As nouns the difference between latch and lid
is that latch is a fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side while lid is the top or cover of a container.As verbs the difference between latch and lid
is that latch is to close or lock as if with a latch while lid is to put a lid on something.latch
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(wikipedia latch)Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(es)- The cleverly constructed latch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed out; nor could the apes find means of ingress through the heavily barred windows.
Derived terms
* on the latchVerb
(es)Act IV
Derived terms
* latch on * latch on to * latch ontoEtymology 2
Compare (etyl) .Verb
(es)- (Shakespeare)
lid
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