lid
/lɪd/ sustantivo B2En español: tapa, tapadera, tapador
- The top or cover of a container.
- A cap or hat.
- One ounce of cannabis.
- An operculum or other lid-like cover.
- A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
- In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
- A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
Plural lids
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Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids.
Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his lids now and glanced across at his visitor.
The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children.
I was simply wild to know how it turned out--although I felt sure Ben Hur must win, because it wouldn’t be poetical justice if he didn’t--so I spread the history open on my desk lid and then tucked Ben Hur between the desk and my knee.
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