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Lid vs Encasement - What's the difference?

lid | encasement | Related terms |

Lid is a related term of encasement.


As nouns the difference between lid and encasement

is that lid is eyelid while encasement is the act of encasing or something that encases.

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

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    encasement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of encasing or something that encases
  • (genetics) The early genetic theory,