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list

Pronunciation: /lɪst/

The English word “list” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  2. Material used for cloth selvage.
  3. A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
  4. The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
  8. A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
  9. A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
  10. The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
  11. A stripe.
  12. A boundary or limit; a border.

verb

  1. To create or recite a list.
  2. To place in listings.
  3. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
  4. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
  5. To plough and plant with a lister.
  6. To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
  7. To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
  8. To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

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 *…

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