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Lid vs Cab - What's the difference?

lid | cab |

As a noun lid

is eyelid.

As an initialism cab is

(us) (civil aeronautics board).

lid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The top or cover of a container.
  • (lb) A cap or hat.
  • *
  • (lb) One ounce of cannabis.
  • A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
  • *2001 , realsurf.com message board
  • *:Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
  • *2003 August, Kneelo Knews
  • *: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.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Derived terms

    * skid lid * flip your lid * keep the lid on something/someone * lidless * eyelid

    Verb

  • To put a lid on something.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    cab

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A taxi; a taxicab.
  • Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
  • Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
  • Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty)
  • Captain went out in the cab' all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the ' cab . Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
    Derived terms
    * cabbie * cabdriver * hackney cab * king cab * Hansom cab * sleeper cab * crew cab

    Verb

    (cabb)
  • To travel by taxicab.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * kab

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.3:
  • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet; the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
  • References
    * [http://groups.google.co.uk/groups/search?q=%22arcade+cabs%22&btnG=Search&sitesearch=groups.google.com]

    Anagrams

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