list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭst
ipa: /lɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: Liszt
Etymology: From Middle English list, liste (“ability, cleverness, cunning, skill; adroitness, dexterity; strategem, trick; device, design, token”), from Old English list (“art, craft; cleverness, cunning, experience, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz (“art, craft”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs- (“furrow, trace, track, trail”).
The word is cognate with Dutch list (“artifice, guile, sleight; ruse, strategem”), German List (“cunning, guile; ploy, ruse, trick”), Low German list (“artifice, cunning; prudence, wisdom”), Icelandic list (“art”), Saterland Frisian list (“cunning, knowledge”), Scots list (“art, craft, skill; cunning”), Swedish list (“art; cunning, guile, wile; ruse, trick; stealth”), and possibly Spanish listo (“clever”). It is also related to learn, lore.
Senses: examples: text: In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.
ref: 1877 November 16, “Vaticanism”, in The Literary World. Choice Readings from the Best New Books, and Critical Reviews, volume XVI, number 420 (New Series), London: James Clarke & Co., […], →OCLC, page 313, column 3:
text: Sophos, fab[le] 40. "The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within."
ref: 1893, S[olomon] C[aesar] Malan, chapter XXVI, in Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs. Mostly from Eastern Writings, volumes III (Ch. xxi.–xxxi.), London: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, page 349:
text: For when the guileful monster smiled / Snakes left their holes and hissed,— / And stroking soft his silken beard / Raised creatures full of list.
ref: 1897, Lilian Winser, “Lossenbury Woods”, in Lays and Legends of the Weald of Kent, London: Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 44:
text: 'The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed by List [[Franz] Liszt]' (List = cunning); anonymous lithograph (c 1842).
ref: 1990, Alexander L. Ringer, “The Rise of Urban Musical Life between the Revolutions, 1789–1848”, in Alexander [L.] Ringer, editor, The Early Romantic Era: Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848 (Man and Music; 6), Basingstoke, Hampshire; London: The Macmillan Press, →DOI, →ISBN, figure 13, caption, page 22:
text: [Der] Pleier […] provides a 'courtly corrective' to Daniel in the shape of his hero, Garel. The latter wins his fight not by list but through straightforward knightly prowess, […]
ref: 1992, Reading Medieval Studies: Annual Proceedings of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Reading, [Reading, Berkshire]: Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 92:
text: It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal, Manuel [I Komnenos], as depicted by [John] Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than by list"[…].
ref: 2000, Jakov Ljubarskij, “John Kinnamos as a Writer”, in Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, editors, ΠΟΛΥΠΛΕΥΡΟΣ ΝΟΥΣ [POLYPLEUROS NOUS]: Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag [VERSATILE MIND: Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner for His 60th Birthday] (Byzantinisches Archiv [Byzantine Archive]; 19), Munich; Leipzig: K[laus] G[erhard] Saur, →ISBN, footnote 11, page 166:
english: VERSATILE MIND: Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner for His 60th Birthday
translation: VERSATILE MIND: Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner for His 60th Birthday
text: One man can accomplish with list (magic), that which a thousand could not accomplish, regardless of how strong they were.
ref: 2008, Jon B. Sherman, The Magician in Medieval German Literature (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Urbana; Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, →OCLC:
glosses: Art; craft; cunning; skill.
Synonyms: word: cunning
word: list
Hyponyms: word: access control list
word: adjacency list
word: alist
word: A-list
word: A list
word: allowlist
word: association list
word: backlist
word: bigot list
word: bill
word: binnacle list
word: blacklist
word: B-list
word: blocklist
word: booklist
word: bucket list
word: buddy list
word: bullet list
word: bulleted list
word: catalog
word: catalogue
word: checklist
word: Christmas list
word: civil list
word: class list
word: C-list
word: clout list
word: codelist
word: concordance
word: controlled vocabulary
word: dean's list
word: decklist
word: definition list
word: denylist
word: directory
word: disabled list
word: display list
word: distribution list
word: D-list
word: dream list
word: dropdown list
word: drop-down list
word: droplist
word: edge list
word: e-list
word: email list
word: enumeration
word: fair list
word: finderlist
word: flag list
word: free list
word: frequency list
word: friends list
word: frontlist
word: graylist
word: greylist
word: grocery list
word: guestlist
word: handlist
word: hit list
word: honey do list
word: honeydew list
word: hotlist
word: index
word: itemization
word: inventory
word: jump list
word: laundry list
word: law list
word: life list
word: linked list
word: linklist
word: listicle
word: litany
word: longlist
word: mailing list
word: manifest
word: menu
word: multilist
word: muster roll
word: naughty list
word: navy list
word: netlist
word: no fly list
word: nodelist
word: numbered list
word: offlist
word: off-list
word: party list
word: picklist
word: playlist
word: price list
word: prize list
word: pull list
word: punch list
word: reading list
word: roll
word: Red List
word: reference list
word: register
word: registry
word: reserved list
word: retired list
word: roster
word: schedule
word: set list
word: setlist
word: shit list
word: shitlist
word: shopping list
word: short list
word: shortlist
word: shot list
word: shotlist
word: sick list
word: skip list
word: snagging list
word: stock list
word: stocklist
word: stop list
word: superlist
word: Swadesh list
word: swaplist
word: tasklist
word: thesaurus
word: tier list
word: to-do list
word: toplist
word: tracklist
word: transfer list
word: unfair list
word: userlist
word: Verlet list
word: waiting list
word: waitlist
word: wait-list
word: want list
word: wanted list
word: watch list
word: watchlist
word: white list
word: whitelist
word: wine list
word: winelist
word: wish list
word: wishlist
word: word list
word: wordlist
word: worklist
word: Z-list
Meronyms: word: bullet point
word: item
word: listing
Related terms: word: enumerated articles
word: listed company
word: listee
word: lister
word: listmaker
word: scheduled territory
word: tick off
word: enlist