Lid vs Mid - What's the difference?
lid | mid |
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.
Denoting the middle part.
Occupying a middle position; middle.
(linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld).
As nouns the difference between lid and mid
is that lid is eyelid while mid is (computing) mobile information device.lid
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Derived terms
* skid lid * flip your lid * keep the lid on something/someone * lidless * eyelidVerb
Anagrams
* ----mid
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mid, midde, from (etyl) . See also middle .Adjective
(-)- mid ocean
- mid finger
- mid hour of night