Lit vs Lid - What's the difference?
lit | lid |
(obsolete) Little.
(obsolete) Little.
(light)
(US, dialectal) To run, or light
* {{quote-news, 1988, April 8, Grant Pick, Johnny Washington's Life, Chicago Reader
, passage=With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know! }}
illuminated
* He walked down the lit corridor.
(slang) intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned
(slang) Sexually aroused (usually a female), especially visibly sexually aroused (e.g., labial swelling is present)
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
To colour; dye.
Abbreviated form of literature.
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 lit and lid
is that lit is little while lid is the top or cover of a container.As verbs the difference between lit and lid
is that lit is past tense of light while lid is to put a lid on something.As an adjective lit
is little.lit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lit, lut, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Noun
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lihte, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(head)citation
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* half litEtymology 3
From (etyl) lit, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 4
From (etyl) litten, liten, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(litt)Etymology 5
Short for literature.Noun
(-)Derived terms
* chick lit * lit crit * litfanAnagrams
* ----lid
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