| 单词 | lid |
| 释义 | lid (once / 531 pages) n A lid is a top, or a cap — some kind of removable or hinged cover for a container. If you forget to put the lid on your tin of cat food, you may discover that your cat and dog have eaten it all by the end of the day. The lid on your trash can keeps raccoons out of it, and the lid on your travel mug keeps your tea hot for hours. Another lid is your eyelid, the skin that moves over your eyeball like a lid: "Her heavy lids told me she didn't sleep at all." A lid is also slang for a hat or a helmet, and if someone says, "Put a lid on it," they're telling you (somewhat rudely) to quiet down. WORD FAMILYlid: lidless, lids USAGE EXAMPLESWhen I’m lying in my coffin and they pull back the lid, the smile on my face will be from that day in Korea.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) One of his other legacies was helping to create a coffee cup lid that may now be as prevalent as the Solo cup. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) An obituary on the funeral home’s website credits Hulseman with developing the Red Solo Cup and the Traveler coffee cup lid. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc. he raised the piano lid Hypo|Hyper trunk lid hinged lid for a trunk cover, top covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container) 2n either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye his lids would stay open no longer Syn|Hyper eyelid, palpebra protective fold a flap of tissue that protects what it covers 3n headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim Syn|Hypo|Hyper chapeau, hat bearskin, busby, shako tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions Panama, Panama hat, boater, leghorn, sailor, skimmer, straw hata stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown bonnet, poke bonneta hat tied under the chin bowler, bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hata felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim campaign hata broad-brimmed felt hat with a high crown; formerly worn by the United States Army and Marine personnel cavalier hat, slouch hata soft felt hat with a wide flexible brim cocked hathat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points cowboy hat, ten-gallon hata hat with a wide brim and a soft crown; worn by American ranch hands deerstalkera tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, toppera man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur dunce cap, dunce's cap, fool's capa cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils Stetson, fedora, felt hat, homburg, trilbya hat made of felt with a creased crown fur hata hat made of fur millinery, woman's hathats for women; the wares sold by a milliner shovel hata stiff broad-brimmed hat with the brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front; worn by some clergymen in Britain snap-brim hata hat with a snap brim sombreroa straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico sou'westerwaterproof hat with wide slanting brim longer in back than in front sun hat, sunhata hat with a broad brim that protects the face from direct exposure to the sun titfera hat (Cockney rhyming slang: `tit for tat' rhymes with `hat') toquea tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs tirolean, tyroleansoft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade beaver, castora hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) bicorn, bicornea cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points church hata fanciful hat of the kind worn by Black women for Sunday worship clochea woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet picture hata woman's dressy hat with a wide brim pillbox, toque, turbana small round woman's hat pith hat, pith helmet, sun helmet, topee, topia lightweight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun porkpie, porkpie hatman's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim sunbonneta large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women tricorn, tricornecocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points headdress, headgear clothing for the head |
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