List

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English

Noun

List (plural Lists)
  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  2. Material used for cloth selvage.
  3. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.

Noun

List (plural Lists)
  1. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items.
  2. (computing) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing.
  3. (programming, LISP) A data structure that is fundamental to the LISP language. A list is defined recursively: it may be nil or it may consist of a header (the first element) and a tail (the remainder; the tail may be nil). Both header and tail are lists.

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Terms derived from list (noun)

Verb

List (third-person singular simple present Lists, present participle Listing, simple past and past participle Listed)

  1. To create or recite a list.
  2. To place in listings.

Verb

List (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle list)

  1. To listen

Noun

List (plural Lists)
  1. (nautical) a tilting or careening manoeuvre, which causes the ship to roll. Usually used to describe tilting not under a ship's own power.
  2. (architecture) a tilt to a building.

Verb

List (third-person singular simple present Lists, present participle Listing, simple past and past participle Listed)

  1. (nautical) to carry out such a manoeuvre

Verb

List (third-person singular simple present Lists, present participle Listing, simple past and past participle Listed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  2. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
      Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they list; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths, — if they be pitiless infernal gods!
    • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 413:
      The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.

Derived terms

Adjectives for List

inexhaustible; extensive; provisional; authoritative; stupendous; representative; eligible; pompous; voting; growing; metrical; interminable; fatal; appalling; shining; gratifying; alarming; casualty; diversified; abbreviated; annotated; prescribed; protesting; mere; certain; inexorable; illegitimate.

Verbs for List

approve—; audit—; check—; circularize—; compile—; delete—; enroll in—; extend—; investigate—; muster—; rattle off—; recapitulate—; review—; supplement—; swell—; —accounts; —calendars; —catalogues; — computes; —declines; —dwindles; —enumerates ; —indexes ; —measures; —polls; — recedes; —registers; —schedules; —scores; —sums up; —wanes.

Thesaurus

Mystik tape, Scotch tape, account, adhesive tape, adjoin, alphabetize, analyze, angularity, annals, arena, arrange, ascend, assort, backset, band, bandage, bank, bar, batten, beading, beadroll, befringe, belt, bibliography, bind, binding, board, book, border, bordering, bordure, bound, break down, brim, brink, brow, calendar, call up, cant, capsize, careen, carve, catalog, catalogue, catalogue raisonne, categorize, cellophane tape, census, chalk, chalk up, check in, checklist, chronicle, cincture, class, classify, climb, close, cloth tape, coast, codify, come a cropper, commandeer, composition, confine, conscript, constituents, container, content, contents, coop, correspondence, court, courtyard, crack, craze, cultivate, culture, curtilage, cut, decline, delimited field, delve, descend, detach, detach for service, dig, digest, dip, directory, divide, divisions, docket, documentation, draft, dress, drop, edge, edging, elements, enclave, enclosure, enframe, engrave, enlist, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, fall, fall away, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall off, fall over, fall prostrate, fallow, fascia, featheredge, fertilize, field, file, fill out, fillet, fimbria, fimbriation, flange, flounce, flounder, fold, force, frame, friction tape, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, galloon, get a cropper, girdle, go downhill, go uphill, grade, grave, ground, group, guts, handlist, harrow, heel, hem, history, hoe, impanel, impress, incise, inclination, incline, index, induct, ingredients, innards, inscribe, insert, insides, inventory, itemize, items, join, jot down, keel, keep score, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lath, lay down, lean, lean over, leaning, leaning tower, ledge, letters, levy, lie along, ligula, ligule, limb, limbus, line, lip, listing, log, lurch, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, march, marge, margin, marginate, mark down, masking tape, matriculate, memorial, minute, mobilize, motif, mulch, muster, muster in, note, note down, numerate, order, pale, paling, park, part, particularize, parts, pen, pigeonhole, pipe roll, pitch, place, place upon record, plank, plastic tape, plow, poll, post, post up, press, program, prune, purfle, purl, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quad, quadrangle, ragged edge, raise, rake, range, rank, rate, recline, record, recording, recruit, reduce to writing, register, registry, relic, remains, retreat, ribband, ribbon, rim, rise, roll, roll call, rolls, roster, rota, ruffle, schedule, score, scroll, selvage, set down, set off, shelve, shore, shred, side, sideline, sidle, sign on, sign up, skirt, skirting, slant, slat, slate, slip, slope, sort, spade, specialize, specify, spill, spline, sprawl, spread-eagle, square, stagger, strake, strap, streak, streaking, stria, striation, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striping, strop, stumble, subdivide, summon, swag, sway, table, tabulate, tabulation, taenia, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, take down, tally, tape, tape measure, tape-record, tapeline, theater, thin, thin out, tick off, ticker tape, till, till the soil, tilt, tip, toft, token, topple, topple down, topple over, totter, tower of Pisa, trace, trim, trimming, trip, tumble, turn turtle, type, uprise, valance, verge, vestige, videotape, weed, weed out, welt, whole, work, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, yard

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old English līste, from Proto-Germanic *līstōn. Cognate with Dutch lijst, German Leiste, Icelandic lista/listi.

Etymology 2

From Middle English liste (“roll of names, contestants in the lists”) (from lists (“place of combat at the boundary of fields”) from Middle English listes, plural of liste (“list”)) from Old English līste (“list, fringe, border”)

Etymology 3

From listen

Etymology 4

Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts.[1]

Etymology 5

Old English lystan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijanan, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”). Akin to Old Norse lysta (whence cognate with Danish and Norwegian lyste), Old High German lusten (German gelüsten and obsolete lüsten).

Translations

Noun

a strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth
material used for cloth selvage
(in plural) the palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments

Noun

register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items
computing: codified representation of a list
LISP: data structure made up of a header and a tail, the latter containing either another list or nil
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Verb

to create or recite a list

Verb

to listen

Noun

a tilting or careening manoeuvre

Verb

to carry out such a manoeuvre

Verb

to be pleasing to
to wish, like, desire

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

List m.

  1. leaf (green and flat organ of vegetative plants)
  2. letter (written message)
  3. sheet (sheet of paper)
  4. newspaper
    Polský list Dziennik Gazeta Prawna nejdříve napsal, že polská hlava státu podepíše dokument ve středu. (iDNES)
  5. certificate (document containing a certified statement)
    rodný list -- birth certificate
    úmrtní list -- death certificate

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

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Dutch

Noun

List f. and m. (plural Listen, diminutive Listje, diminutive plural Listjes)

  1. a cunning plan

Pronunciation

Anagrams

Faroese

Noun

list f.

  1. art

Declension

f2 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative list listin listir listirnar
Accusative list listina listir listirnar
Dative list listini listum listunum
Genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

German

Noun

List f. (genitive List, plural Listen</span>)

  1. cunning; craft
  2. trick

Etymology

Old High German list, from Germanic *listiz. Cognate with obsolete English list.

Pronunciation

Usage notes

  • "mit List und Tücke" may be translated as "with patience and a snare"

Icelandic

Noun

List f. (genitive singular listar, plural listir)

  1. art

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɪst
    Homophones: lyst

Declension

declension of List</small>
f-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listir listirnar
accusative list listina listir listirnar
dative list listinni listum listunum
genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

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Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Noun

List m.

  1. letter (a written message)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Old English

Noun

List f.

  1. art; cunning, guile, craft

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *listiz. Cognate with Old Saxon list (Dutch list), Old High German list (German List), Old Norse list (Swedish list).

Pronunciation

Declension

    Declension of List (strong ō-stem)
Singular Plural
nominative list lista, liste
accusative liste lista, liste
genitive liste lista
dative liste listum

Polish

Noun

List m.

  1. letter (a written message)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

Declension

    declension of List
singular plural
nominative list listy
genitive listu listów
dative listowi listom
accusative list listy
instrumental listem listami
locative liście listach
vocative liście listy

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

lȋst m. (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ст)

  1. leaf
  2. (computing) leaf
  3. sole (fish)
  4. letter (written message)
  5. sheet of paper
  6. calf (leg part)
  7. a special purpose certificate, e.g. of birth, ownership etc.

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Declension

    declension of List
singular plural
nominative lȋst lȉstovi
genitive lista lȉstōvā
dative listu listovima
accusative list listove
vocative listu listovi
locative listu listovima
instrumental listom listovima

Slovak

Noun

List m.

  1. letter; a written message
  2. leaf; a part of a tree
  3. sheet; a piece of paper

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Slovene

Noun

List m. (plural listi)

  1. piece of paper
  2. leaf
  3. sole
  4. (anatomy) calf (leg part)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Related terms

  • listje (leaves, collective noun)

Swedish

Noun

List c.

  1. smartness, trick, cunning
  2. a strip (of wood or metal, a thin and long board), a border, a beading
  3. (graphical user interface) a bar

Pronunciation

Declension

Declension of List
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative List Listen Lister Listerna
genitive Lists Listens Listers Listernas

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References

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