list
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭst
ipa: /lɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: Liszt
Forms: form: lists
form: listing
form: listed
form: listed
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: glosses: To create or recite a list.
examples: text: As the export market for tropical hardwoods expanded, timber from tropical rain forests very rapidly became the dominant or major forest product, dominant to such an extent that trade figures often do not even list the minor forest products exported, or their value.
ref: 1993, Ooi Jin Bee, “The Tropical Rain Forest: Patterns of Exploitation and Trade”, in Tropical Deforestation: The Tyranny of Time, Singapore: Singapore University Press, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: To place in listings.
glosses: To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
examples: text: to list a door
text: He raised his eyes and saw / The tree that shone white-listed thro' the gloom.
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To plough and plant with a lister.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
examples: text: to list a board
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
examples: text: […] It is therefore ordered that the Maior and Aldermen of Colchester [et al.], shall forthwith procure and raise in the said severall townes, and other pleces adjacent, two thousand horses for dragooners, or as manie as possible they may, for the service as aforesaid, and with all possible speed to send them up to London unto Thomas Browne Grocer, and Maximilian Beard Girdler, by us appointed to list horses for the service aforesaid; […]
ref: 1642 October 28, [Philip Morant], History and Antiquities of the Borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex. […], Colchester, Essex: Printed and sold by I. Marsden, …, published 1810, →OCLC, pages 48–49:
text: "I have a gun, madam," said little Julian, "and the park-keeper is to teach me how to fire it next year." / "I will list you for my soldier, then," said the Countess.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 107:
glosses: To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
glosses: To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
examples: text: A century later, BR demolished the downside main buildings, so the eastbound and central platforms were promptly listed - which has ensured their survival, albeit increasingly neglected in recent years. This has now been rectified, [...].
ref: 2021 February 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The London Underground Operational Enhancement Award: Hanwell”, in RAIL, number 946, page 55:
glosses: To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
examples: text: Responsible for public affairs, business strategy, corporate development and finance, he [Donald Tang] now faces the task of getting an initial public offering over the line in London after ditching earlier plans to list in New York in the face of US political opposition.
ref: 2024 July 13, Laura Onita, Eleanor Olcott, “Shein's master of reinvention treads tricky path to IPO”, in FT Weekend, page 11:
glosses: To trade on a particular stock exchange.
raw_tags: of a business
Synonyms: sense: create or recite a list
word: tabulate
word: tick off
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: delist
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: downlist
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: enlist
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: interlist
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: listable
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: lister
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: mislist
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: nolisting
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: relist
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: short-list
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: shortlist
sense: Terms derived from list (verb)
word: unlist