list
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
architecture
arts
business
carpentry
computing
construction
crafts
engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
programming
ropemaking
sciences
tin-plate-manufacture
transport
war
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: lists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: listing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: listed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: listed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
pos: noun
examples: 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?
“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.”
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.
gloss: Material used for cloth selvage.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
"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."
gloss: A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
"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?"
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.
gloss: The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
pos: noun
tags: historical
in-plural
examples: 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.
With Truncheon tip'd with Iron head, / The Warrior to the Lists [he] led; […]
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; […]
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.
They ran down to the lists and Peter came outside the ropes to meet them, his face red and sweaty, his chest heaving.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
in-plural
examples: 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.”
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
pos: noun
examples: STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, the liſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns.
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.
gloss: A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
pos: noun
gloss: The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
pos: noun
gloss: A stripe.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: A boundary or limit; a border.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [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.
gloss: To create or recite a list.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To place in listings.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to list a door
He raised his eyes and saw / The tree that shone white-listed thro' the gloom.
gloss: To plough and plant with a lister.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
pos: verb
tags: Southern-US
transitive
gloss: To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to list a board
gloss: To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […] 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; […]
"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.
gloss: To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
pos: verb
examples: 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, [...].
gloss: To trade on a particular stock exchange.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
Synonyms: list
Related words: enumerated articles
listed company
listee
lister
listmaker
scheduled territory
tick off
enlist
Derived words: access control list
add to the list
adjacency list
alist
A-list
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
drop-down list
dropdown list
droplist
edge list
e-list
e-mail list
email 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
mute list
naughty list
navy list
netlist
nice list
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
wait-list
waitlist
wanted list
want list
watch list
watchlist
whitelist
white list
wine list
wish list
wishlist
word list
wordlist
worklist
Z-list
listful
cross-list
delist
downlist
enlist
listable
lister
mislist
nolisting
relist
short-list
shortlist
unlist
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