list
Meanings
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- 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.
- 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.
- A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- A stripe.
- A boundary or limit; a border.
- To create or recite a list.
- To place in listings.
- To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- To plough and plant with a lister.
- To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
- To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- To trade on a particular stock exchange.
- Art; craft; cunning; skill.
- To listen.
- To listen to.
- To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
- To be pleasing to.
- Desire, inclination.
- A tilt to a building.
- A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- To tilt to one side.
- A surname.
Pronunciation
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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”).