list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭst
ipa: /lɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: Liszt
Forms: form: lists
Etymology: From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (“band, strip; hem, selvage; border, edge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”).
Cognates
* Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”)
*Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”)
* German Low German Liest (“edging, border”)
* German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”)
* Swedish lista (“list”)
* Icelandic lista listi (“list”)
* Italian lista (“list; strip”)
* Portuguese lista (“list”)
* Spanish lista (“list, roll; stripe”)
* Galician lista (“band, strip; list”)
* Finnish lista (“(informal) list; batten”).
Senses: examples: text: 1. Gent[leman]. Well: there went but a paire of ſheeres betweene vs. / Luc[io]. I grant: as there may betweene the Liſts, and the Veluet. Thou art the Liſt. / 1. Gent. And thou the Veluet. Thou art good Veluet; thou'rt a three pild-piece I warrant thee: I had as liefe be a Lyſt of an Engliſh Kerſey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French Veluet. Do I ſpeake feelingly now?
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 62, column 1, lines 27–34:
english: 1st Gentleman. Well, you and I are cut from the same cloth. / Lucio. I agree: just as the lists [scraps from the edge of the cloth] and the velvet are from the same cloth. You are the list. / 1st Gentleman. And you are the velvet. You are good velvet; you are a three-piled piece, I'll bet. I would willingly be a list of an English kersey, than be full of piles [haemorrhoids], as you are piled, like a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?
translation: 1st Gentleman. Well, you and I are cut from the same cloth. / Lucio. I agree: just as the lists [scraps from the edge of the cloth] and the velvet are from the same cloth. You are the list. / 1st Gentleman. And you are the velvet. You are good velvet; you are a three-piled piece, I'll bet. I would willingly be a list of an English kersey, than be full of piles [haemorrhoids], as you are piled, like a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?
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text: “Listen! I see it all — down, down even to the stays! Such stays! Six-eight a pair, Polly, with red flannel — or list is it? — that they put into the tops of those fearful things. I can draw you a picture of them.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 20:
text: Why should we not send a message out over London which would attract to us anyone who might still be alive? I ran across, and pulling at the list-covered rope, I was surprised to find how difficult it was to swing the bell.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
examples: text: Previous to the offering up of prayer, however, the persons chosen for this office [of praying for the people] had divested themselves of their boots and put on list slippers, their hands being washed by "the descendants of Levi" at a basin near the Holy of Holies.
ref: 1871 September 18, “The Jewish New Year”, in The Jewish Herald: A Record of Christian Effort for the Salvation of Israel, London: John Snow & Co., […]; and the British Society [for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews], […], published 1 November 1871, →OCLC, page 174:
text: "How is it, then, that the woman who came into the room about nine left to traces with her muddy boots?" / "I am glad you raise the point. It occurred to me at the time. The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers."
ref: 1893, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Naval Treaty”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt, →OCLC; republished London: John Murray, […], January 1950, →OCLC, page 255:
glosses: Material used for cloth selvage.
examples: text: Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was with Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus. […] And yet he [Septimus Severus] was the Ableſt Emperour, almoſt, of all the Liſt.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Youth and Age. XLII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 247–248:
text: "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list. "Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?"
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 11–12:
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. […] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut: How microbes promote liver cancer in the overweight”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–73:
glosses: A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
examples: text: On pain of death, no person be so bold
Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,
Except the marshal and such officers
Appointed to direct these fair designs.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 3]:
text: With Truncheon tip'd with Iron head, / The Warrior to the Lists [he] led; […]
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 32:
text: Ariſe, O Father of the Trojan State! / The Nations call, thy joyful People wait, / To ſeal the Truce and end the dire Debate. / Paris thy Son, and Sparta’s King advance, / In meaſur’d Liſts to toſs the weighty Lance; […]
ref: 1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book III”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 16, lines 319–323:
text: William de Wyvil, and Stephen de Martival, […] armed at all points, rode up and down the lists to enforce and preserve good order among the spectators.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 139:
text: They ran down to the lists and Peter came outside the ropes to meet them, his face red and sweaty, his chest heaving.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, “Chapter 14. How All Were Very Busy”, in Prince Caspian:
glosses: The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
examples: text: The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
ref: 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
examples: text: Lisp is an applicative language. This means that it is structured around applying functions (operations) to a linked list of arguments that accompany those functions. […] A function call or function definition is only coded in the syntax of a list, which can be of an indefinite length. Thus, the list is the only data structure for a Lisp program.
ref: 1985 March 10, Ed Acly, “A Tale of Three Languages: C, Ada & Lisp”, in Computerworld: The Newsweekly for the Computer Community, volume XIX, number 12, Framingham, Mass.: CW Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page ID/10, columns 1–2:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
examples: text: STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, the liſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns.
ref: 1788, [John Carter], “STRIÆ”, in The Builder’s Magazine: Or, A Universal Dictionary for Architects, Carpenters, Masons, Bricklayers, &c. […], new edition, London: Printed for E. Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 284:
text: A volute is a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and Composite capitals, of which it makes the principal characteristic and ornament. […] There are several diversities practised in the volute. In some, the list or edge, throughout all the circumvolutions, is in the same line or plane. […] [I]n others, the canal or one circumvolution is detached from the list of another by a vacuity or aperture.
ref: 1876, Edward Shaw, Thomas W[illiam] Silloway, George M[ilford] Harding, “Introduction”, in Civil Architecture; being a Complete Theoretical and Practical System of Building, Containing the Fundamental Principles of the Art. […], 11th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Carey Baird & Co., […], →OCLC, page 22, column 2:
topics: architecture
glosses: A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
ropemaking
transport
glosses: A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
topics: business
manufacturing
tin-plate-manufacture
glosses: The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
examples: text: Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Same [i.e., the Blacknesse of Negroes]”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 6th book, page 282:
glosses: A stripe.
examples: text: [W]ere it good / […] to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre? / It were not good for therein ſhould we read / The very bottome and the ſoule of hope, / The very liſt, the very vtmost bound / Of all our fortunes.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
english: Is it good / […] to place so high a stake / On the risky hazard of one doubtful hour? / No, it would be no good for we would read into it that we had reached / The end of our hope, / The very limit, the very utmost boundary / Of all our luck.
translation: Is it good / […] to place so high a stake / On the risky hazard of one doubtful hour? / No, it would be no good for we would read into it that we had reached / The end of our hope, / The very limit, the very utmost boundary / Of all our luck.
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glosses: A boundary or limit; a border.
Synonyms: 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
Derived terms: access control list
add to the list
adjacency list
A-list
alist
A list
association list
backlist
bigot list
binnacle list
blacklist
B-list
blocklist
blue list
booklist
bucket list
buddy list
bullet list
bulleted list
checklist
Christmas list
civil list
class list
C-list
clout list
codelist
dean's list
death list
decklist
definition list
disabled list
display list
distribution list
D-list
dream list
dropdown list
drop-down list
droplist
edge list
e-list
email list
e-mail list
Entity List
fair list
finderlist
flag list
free list
frequency list
friendlist
friends list
frontlist
greylist
grocery list
guestlist
handlist
hit list
honeydew list
honey do list
honey-do list
hotlist
ignore list
interlist
jump list
kinglist
laundry list
law list
life list
linked list
linklist
List 99
List A
list box
listee
listeme
listicle
listlike
listmaker
listmaking
listmom
list price
listserver
listsib
listview
listwashing
listwise
List X
listy
longlist
mailing list
material list
memberlist
midlist
multilist
naughty list
navy list
netlist
nodelist
no fly list
no-fly list
numbered list
off-list
offlist
on the critical list
packing list
pagelist
party list
paylist
picklist
playlist
prelist
price list
pricelist
prize list
pull list
punch list
reading list
Red List
reference list
reserved list
retired list
safelist
set list
setlist
shelflist
shelf list
shit list
shitlist
shopping list
short list
shot list
shotlist
sick list
skip list
snagging list
snag list
stocklist
stock list
stop list
sublist
superlist
Swadesh list
swaplist
tasklist
tier list
to-do list
toplist
tracklist
transfer list
treelist
unfair list
uplist
userlist
Verlet list
waiting list
waitlist
wait-list
wanted list
want list
watch list
watchlist
white list
whitelist
wine list
wish list
wishlist
word list
wordlist
worklist
Z-list
Related terms: word: enumerated articles
word: listed company
word: listee
word: lister
word: listmaker
word: scheduled territory
word: tick off
word: enlist