(n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
(n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
(n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
(n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.
(n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
(2) It appears that the effects of monocular lid suture upon MIN are in most respects similar to the effects of monocular lid suture previously reported for the A laminae.
(3) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(4) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(5) Aponeurotic ptosis repair may be performed under local anesthesia, and past reports have suggested that operative lid position may be used to predict the final result.
(6) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(7) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
(8) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(9) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(10) In neurological diseases the hyposensitivity could include the cornea, conjunctiva and lid margin.
(11) The advances in lid and orbital surgery are due to the improvements made in diagnostic equipment and to technical refinements.
(12) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(13) The volumetric determination of all those tissues relevant for Opthalmodynamography (ODG) showed the lids to contribute about a quarter to the total volume; another quarter each was due to the optic bulb including optic fascicel, external bulbar musculature and orbital fat.
(14) The occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma of the lid is reviewed with emphasis upon the incidence, clinical presentation, pathophysiology and methods of treatment.
(15) Surgical techniques are based upon removal of fat from each of the two or three so-called compartments within the upper or lower lid.
(16) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(17) Signs include lid edema, periauricular lymphadenopathy, conjunctival injection, follicular reaction, and typically subconjunctival hemorrhages.
(18) The German journalist whose documentary lifted the lid on claims of systematic doping in Russian athletics has said he is prepared to make a follow-up after receiving more evidence.
(19) She will outline her case in a speech at the Oxford media conference, which will be the first time Labour has lifted the lid on the all-party talks on Leveson.
(20) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
Yid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Nonetheless, before taking YID-001 for a spin on the Tuggeranong Parkway, Murrumu and his associates did inform the police that the car licensed to the Yidiindji government would be driving on local roads.
(2) Our film was sparked by the behaviour of a Chelsea fan who, sitting a few seats behind me and Ivor one Saturday, decided to upgrade the chant – regularly heard at Stamford Bridge whenever anything Spurs-related comes up – to a more pointed one of "Fuck the fucking Yids!
(3) Three years ago, me and my brother Ivor made a short film for Kick Racism Out of Football called The Y-Word , which attempted to challenge the acceptability of the chanting of the word Yid (and other antisemitic chants) across a variety of London clubs.
(4) Many Chelsea fans who I have challenged feel they are justified because "the Yids is what Spurs call themselves".
(5) That includes baiting Liverpool fans about Hillsborough, calling Spurs fans “Yids”, old loyalist songs about the IRA, taking drugs and openly flouting smoking bans inside grounds, starting fights and generally invoking negative and outdated stereotypes about fans from different parts of the country or other countries.
(6) Now, during a visit to the national capital he has, since 2 January, been driving around in YID-001, a car that was, Murrumu says, “licensed to the sovereign Yidindji government” on the first day of the new year.
(7) But Murrumu said he decided to release YID-001 “in Ngambri (Canberra in Walgalu, the language of the custodians of the plains upon which the national capital is imposed) for the very symbolic gesture that the head office called Parliament House of the Commonwealth of Australia is located there”.
(8) The comedian and writer David Baddiel, a Chelsea fan, also argued the use of Yid and similar words is antisemitic.
(9) So while the businessman David Harding can reasonably suggest that words such as “geek” and “nerd” are as offensive as “nigger” and “yid”, we know that they are not.
(10) Tottenham Hotspur fans resisted the threat of criminal action over chanting of the word "yid" during their home match with Norwich.
(11) Tottenham Hotspur fans have been told they could be arrested if they use the word "Yid" during the club's home match against West Ham United on Sunday as the simmering row over Spurs supporters' routine use of the words "Yid Army", "Yids" or "Yiddo" led to a warning over their behaviour from the Metropolitan police.
(12) The black and gold plates read: “ Yidindji - YID-001 - Pursuant to Yidindji Tribal Law.” The car’s driver is Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, a man in his 40s from the country around Cairns, north Queensland , who last year decided to voluntarily “leave Australia” and live by the tribal law of his Indigenous people, the Yidindji.
(13) The car he was driving, fitted with black and gold number plates reading YID 001, had also come to police attention and the plates were taken.
(14) Their fans regularly parade the club's Jewish credentials, chanting "Yid Army", "Yids" or "Yiddo".
(15) The prime minister told the Jewish Chronicle last month there was "a difference between Spurs fans self-describing themselves as Yids and someone calling someone a Yid as an insult", adding: "You have to be motivated by hate.
(16) In the third minute of the game "We'll sing what we want" rang around White Hart Lane, followed by the traditional cry of "Yid Army".