Paint cans have non-screw lids that are levered off. Pots have lids that are lifted off. If you come across grey areas, go with the local flow. What do you mean by 'a Coke can is a bottle'? Fizzy drinks come in either cans with a ringpull or bottles with a cap. I would call the top of a narrow-necked container a cap, and that of a wide-necked container a lid including jam jars, as Ronald says.
KateBunting Yeah, can is not a bottle. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Your theory is mostly correct. If it has screw, it is called a cap.
Jars often have screw tops. That feature isn't relevant. Coke cans Soda cans usually have pop-tops, which is arguably a type of lid. It is not a cap. Click to expand This could get interesting: pen -- cap laundry hamper -- lid toilet -- cover the furry thing with elastic toilet -- lid the hard thing attached with a hinge bottle -- cap jar -- lid mixing bowl, storage container -- cover saucepan, casserole dish -- lid gas tank -- cap I have no idea what pattern or principle sorts them out?
Prairiefire said:. I have no idea what pattern or principle sorts them out? English-Ireland top end. Don't expect to find absolute consistency on this issue. I am not correcting Prairiefire, simply offering my own preferences: pen -- cap top laundry hamper -- lid toilet -- cover the furry thing with elastic toilet -- lid the hard thing attached with a hinge cover bottle -- cap top jar -- lid mixing bowl, storage container -- cover top or lid saucepan, casserole dish -- lid gas tank -- cap.
Elwintee Senior Member London England. Thank you very much joob, prairiefire, panjandrum and Elwintee for your explanations and examples. You helped me to have an idea of how to use them. For example lid, a lid of a jar or a container, it's used to represent a container with a lid. A cover can mean a lid, a cap and a top since it means to protect or to conceal something with a top. The same thing goes for top. Example:"where did you put the lid?
See a translation. The one learning a language! Top verb archaic To excel; to rise above others. Top verb nautical To raise one end of a yard, etc. Top verb dyeing To cover with another dye. Top verb To put a stiffening piece or back on a saw blade. Top verb To arrange fruit, etc. Top verb of a horse To strike the top of an obstacle with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
Top verb To improve domestic animals, especially sheep by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds. Top verb To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of a steel ingot to remove unsound metal.
Top verb golf To strike the ball above the centre; also, to make a stroke, etc. Top adjective Situated on the top of something. Top adjective informal Best; of the highest quality or rank. Top adjective informal Very good, of high quality, power, or rank. Top adverb Rated first. Top noun A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
Top noun A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting. Top noun The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
Top noun The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school. Top noun The chief person; the most prominent one. Top noun The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head. Top noun The head, or upper part, of a plant. Top noun A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. Top noun A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
Top noun Eve; verge; point. Top noun Top-boots. Top noun A stroke on the top of the ball. Top verb To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
Top verb To predominate; as, topping passions. Top verb To excel; to rise above others. Top verb To strike a ball above the center. Top verb To rise at one end, as a yard; - usually with up. Top verb To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; - chiefly used in the past participle.
Top verb To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass. Top verb To rise to the top of; to go over the top of. Top verb To take off the or upper part of; to crop. Top verb To perform eminently, or better than before.
Top verb To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other. Top verb To cover with another dye; as, to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening and crocking. Top verb To arrange, as fruit, with the best on top.
Top verb To strike the top of, as a wall, with the hind feet, in jumping, so as to gain new impetus; - said of a horse. Top verb To improve domestic animals, esp. Top verb To strike the ball above the center; also, to make as a stroke by hitting the ball in this way.
Top noun platform surrounding the head of a lower mast. Top verb strike the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool giving it a forward spin. Top noun the uppermost creamy layer of milk.
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