Word: list Part of Speech: verb 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, 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”). Pronunciation: /lɪst/ 1. To create or recite a list. Labels: transitive 2. To place in listings. Labels: transitive Example: 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. 3. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border. Labels: transitive 4. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list. Labels: transitive Example: to list a door Example: He raised his eyes and saw / The tree that shone white-listed thro' the gloom. 5. To plough and plant with a lister. Labels: transitive 6. To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe. Labels: Southern-US, transitive 7. To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of. Labels: transitive Example: to list a board 8. To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat. Labels: transitive 9. To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] 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; […] Example: "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. 10. To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 11. To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed. Example: 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, [...]. 12. To trade on a particular stock exchange. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I was able to invest as soon as the company was listed. Example: 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.