lidar

By anacronymic evolution from LIDAR.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪdɑɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪdɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪdɑː(ɹ)

lidar (countable and uncountable, plural lidars)

2. (usually uncountable) The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere.

   Alternative form: LIDAR (all-caps form, dated)

   Hypernym: imaging

   Hyponyms: active lidar, microlidar

   Coordinate terms: radar (uses radio waves), sodar (uses sound waves), sonar (uses sound waves)

   Tesla bet on the idea that in the design of self-driving cars, lidar doesn't add enough capability, beyond what the cameras already provide, to be worth the additional cost.

4. (countable) A device that provides such imaging.

   There's a lidar mounted on the roof of that Waymo.

• Laird, drail, laird, larid, liard

lidar m (plural lidars)

1. lidar

From Old Galician-Portuguese lidar, from Latin lītigāre (“to dispute”). Compare Spanish lidiar. Doublet of litigar, which is a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /liˈðaɾ/

lidar (first-person singular present lido, first-person singular preterite lidei, past participle lidado)

1. to deal with, to handle
2. to fight, to struggle

   Synonym: loitar

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 316:

     Et sabede que en todo o muro nõ ouuo y torre nẽ cubete nẽ arca hu algũ home podesse estar lidando en que nõ estouesse syna ou pendón de féuera cõ bandas d'ouro

     You must know that in all the wall there were neither tower nor turret nor brattice where a man can be fighting and where there were not a banner or standard of thread [of silk] and stripes of gold

3. to bullfight

   Synonym: tourear

• lide
• litigar
• litixio

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “lidar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lidar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lidar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lidar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “lidar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lidar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese lidar, lidear, from Latin lītigāre (“to dispute”). Compare Spanish lidiar and Italian litigare (“to quarrel”). Doublet of litigar, which was a borrowing.

• Hyphenation: li‧dar

lidar (first-person singular present lido, first-person singular preterite lidei, past participle lidado)

1. to deal with, to handle

   Synonyms: reagir, ocupar-se

   Não sei como lidar com isso.

   I don't know how to handle it.

2. to fight, to struggle

   Synonyms: combater, lutar

3. to bullfight

   Synonyms: correr, tourear

• lide
• litigar
• litígio

• “lidar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “lidar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “lidar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “lidar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “lidar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “lidar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025