Lid vs Envelope - What's the difference?
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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.
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(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.
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
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A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
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(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
(computing) The information used for routing an email that is transmitted with the email but not part of its contents.
(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane.
(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
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Lid is a related term of envelope.
As nouns the difference between lid and envelope
is that lid is eyelid while envelope is a paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.As a verb envelope is
(nonstandard).lid
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Derived terms
* skid lid * flip your lid * keep the lid on something/someone * lidless * eyelidVerb
Anagrams
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Etymology 1
From the (etyl) enveloppe, from envelopper.Noun
(en noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope , or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
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