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Definition: Lido |
LidoNoun1. (British) a recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lido" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1879. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | LIDO An input language for the attribute evaluator generator LIGA (a successor of GAG and a subsystem of the Eli compiler-compiler). LIDO is derived from GAG's input language ALADIN. ["LIDO: A Specification Language for Attribute Grammars", U. Kastens |
Building & Civil Engineering | A depression formed within an embanked area into which all rain water falling on it is directed and from which extraneous water(river flooding or storm water)is excluded. This single potential breeding place is kept clean-weeded and effectively treated with larvicides or stocked with larvivorous fish. The method is known as "lido method" Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It was the setting for Thomas Mann's classic novel Death in Venice. In 1202 at the beginning of the Fourth Crusade, it was used as a camp by the crusaders, who were blockaded there by the Venetians when they could not pay for the Venetian ships they needed for transport.
In United Kingdom, lido refers to a public swimming pool which is outside, or part of a beach where people can swim, lie in the sun or do water sports.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lido."
Crosswords: Lido |
| English words defined with "lido": lido deck. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lido" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (Lido), Italian (beach, seashore, seaside, shore, strand), Portuguese (read), Romanian (Lido), Turkish (Lido). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Starlit Days at the Lido (1935) Abenteuer am Lido (1933) Les Filles du Lido (1995) Shirley MacLaine at the Lido (1979) The Lido Du Paris (1975) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lido Beach casino. Sarasota, Florida.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lido Gardens, Long Beach, Long Island. Entrance.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lido Gardens, Long Beach, Long Island. Small group I.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lido Gardens, Long Beach, Long Island. Small group II.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lido Gardens, Long Beach, Long Island. Large group I.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lido Gardens, Long Beach, Long Island. Large group II.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Lido" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 53.97% of the time. "Lido" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 53.97% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (common) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lido": Lido Beach ♦ lido deck. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
grand lido braco | 165 | beach florida lido | 22 |
lido | 163 | lido paris | 22 |
grand lido negril | 132 | di hotel lido savio | 22 |
hotel jesolo lido | 132 | holiday inn lido beach | 22 |
grand lido | 128 | adriano lido | 21 |
lido di jesolo | 124 | booking hotel jesolo lido | 21 |
beach lido | 88 | ferien jesolo lido | 21 |
lido di jesolo hotel | 66 | booking jesolo lido | 19 |
jesolo lido | 51 | alberghi di jesolo lido | 19 |
lido key | 46 | lido key fl | 19 |
grand lido sans souci | 41 | hotel italien jesolo lido | 19 |
grand lido resort | 38 | italien jesolo lido | 19 |
jesolo lido urlaub | 34 | di lido savio | 18 |
venice lido hotel | 31 | lido hotel | 18 |
jesolo lido zimmer | 28 | jesolo lido vacanze | 18 |
alberghi jesolo lido | 27 | hotel jesolo lido prenotazioni | 17 |
venice lido | 26 | booking jesolo lido zimmer | 17 |
grand lido jamaica | 25 | radisson lido beach | 17 |
hotel jesolo lido urlaub | 24 | accommodation jesolo lido | 17 |
14 lido | 24 | radisson lido beach resort | 17 |
classe di hotel lido | 17 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "lido"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Pishinë (pool, swimming pool, tank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الليدو ملهي أنيق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Открит Плувен Басейн, Плаж, Елегантен Морски Курорт. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | regnvandsbassin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Lido, regenbassin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Lido, bassin collecteur de précipitation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Strandbad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συλλεκτικόν κοίλωμα βροχών, Υπαίθρια ισίνα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ֱרכת חי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Strandfürdõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bacino di raccolta di acqua piovana. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idolay lido (read). (various references) Lido. (various references) открытый плавательный бассейн. (various references) Piscina (basin, baths, natatorium, piscina, plunge, pond, pool, swimming bath, swimming pool, swimming-bath, swimming-pool, swimming-pool bath), Establecimiento (business establishment, establishment, foundation, founding, growth, institution, ordinance, plant, setting up, settlement, settling, sprout, statute, works), depósito (accretion, aggradation, alluviation, barrel, bladder, bladder tank, bond, bosh, cistern, containment, deposit, depository, depot, down payment, escrow, foots, gas reservoir, kettle, morgue, ore body, orebody, payment on account, Pinfold, receiver, repository, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, retainer, sediment, sedimentation, silting, sink, stockroom, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, submission, sump, tank, warehouse, warehousing, water bosh, water tank, yard), Centro De Natación, Centro De Balandrismo, balsa (balsa, balsa wood, crib, cribbing, ferry, ferryboat, float, hitch, holing, pond, raft, rettery, swamp), Alberca (reservoir, rettery, swimming pool). (various references) lågområde, Friluftsbad (open-air pool, public beach). (various references) สถานที่พักผ่อนตามชายทะเล. (various references) Lido, Yüzme Havuzu (natatorium, swimming bath, swimming pool). (various references) Пляж, Плавальний Басейн. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lido": lidocaine, lidocaines, lidos. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lido": chilidog, chilidogs, furazolidone, furazolidones, halidom, halidome, halidomes, halidoms, thalidomide, thalidomides, utilidor, utilidors. (additional references) | |
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"Lido" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aidoo, elido, fido, gliddo, ilda, kido, lador, ldo, ledo, Ledro, lewo, lfio, Liadov, libdo, libo, lico, lida, liddy, lide, lidho, Lidi, Lidl, Lidu, lifo, lindo, lio, Liod, lipo, liqo, liro, liso, Lisov, Lito, liudi, livo, lixo, lizo, Lladro, Lledo, Lodo, Ltda, lyo, Lyudov, slido. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lido" (pronounced lē"dō) |
| 4 | l ē" d ō | Toledo. |
| 3 | -ē" d ō | libido, Tuxedo. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: diol, idol. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-o" | |
-1 letter: dol, lid, oil, old. | |
-2 letters: do, id, li, lo, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-o" | |
+1 letter: dildo, diols, doily, dolci, idols, indol, lidos, oiled, oldie, sloid, soldi, solid. | |
+2 letters: algoid, alodia, amidol, bifold, bodily, boiled, bolide, codlin, coiled, dialog, diglot, dildoe, dildos, diobol, diploe, dipole, docile, doiled, doling, doolie, dossil, dozily, eidola, florid, foiled, haloid, indole, indols, infold, keloid, ladino, libido, lipoid, meloid, milord, moduli, moiled, oldies, oldish, ploidy, roiled, siloed, sloids, soiled, solidi, solids, stolid, toiled, toluid, xyloid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 64 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. -.. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i d o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0064 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46757081 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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