Lid vs. Lit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lid and Lit
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Lid
A lid, also known as a cover, is part of a container, and serves as the closure or seal, usually one that completely closes the object. Lids can be placed on small containers such as tubs as well as larger lids for open-head pails and drums.
Lit
Past and past participle of light, light
Lid
A removable or hinged cover for the top of a container
A dustbin lid
Lit
Provided with light or lighting; illuminated
Leaving the safety of a lit street
A lit window at dusk
Lid
A removable or hinged cover for a hollow receptacle or box.
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Lit
Having been ignited; burning
A lit cigarette
Lid
An eyelid.
Lit
Drunk.
Lid
(Biology) A flaplike covering, such as an operculum.
Lit
Short for literature
Chick lit
Lid
A curb, restraint, or limit
Approved a new lid on corporate spending.
Lit
A past tense and a past participle of light1. See Usage Note at light1.
Lid
(Informal) An act of concealment; a cover
Told us to keep a lid on the report until the campaign was over.
Lit
A past tense and a past participle of light1.
Lid
(Slang) A hat.
Lit
Informal. Drunk or drugged. Often used with up.
Lid
(Slang) An ounce of marijuana.
Lit
Literature, especially as an academic subject
Enjoyed my course in French lit.
Lid
The top or cover of a container.
Lit
Simple past tense and past participle of light||illuminate; start a fire; etc
Lid
(slang) A cap or hat.
Lit
Simple past tense and past participle of light||alight: land, come down on
Lid
(slang) One ounce of cannabis.
Lit
To run or light (alight).
Lid
A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
Lit
(transitive) To colour; dye.
Lid
(slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
Lit
Illuminated.
He walked down the lit corridor.
Lid
(slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
Lit
(slang) Intoxicated or under the influence of drugs.
Lid
Clipping of eyelid
Lit
(slang) Sexually aroused (usually of a female), especially visibly sexually aroused.
Lid
(microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
Lit
(slang) Exciting, captivating; fun.
This party is gonna be lit.
Lid
(figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
Lit
(slang) Excellent, fantastic; cool.
Those jeans are lit.
Lid
(Scouse) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)
Lit
(obsolete) Little.
Lid
(transitive) To put a lid on (something).
Lit
(obsolete) Little.
Lid
That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
Lit
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
Lid
The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid.
Lit
Clipping of literature
Do we have any lit homework tonight?
Lid
The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
Lit
The humanistic study of a body of literature;
He took a course in Russian lit
Lid
Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye;
His lids would stay open no longer
Lit
Provided with artificial light;
Illuminated advertising
Looked up at the lighted windows
A brightly lit room
A well-lighted stairwell
Lid
A movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening of a container
Lit
Set afire or burning;
The lighted candles
A lighted cigarette
A lit firecracker
Lid
Headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
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