list

Meaning

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. (obsolete) A stripe.
12. (obsolete) 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.
9. (obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
10. (obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
11. To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
12. To trade on a particular stock exchange.

Verb

1. To listen.
2. To listen to.

Verb

1. To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
2. To be pleasing to.

Verb

1. To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
2. To tilt to one side.

Concepts

list

register

catalogue

inventory

roll

enumerate

table

catalog

lean

record

index

tilt

schedule

slant

directory

roster

heel

incline

careen

listing

enumeration

itemize

inclination

tip

slope

chart

table of contents

account

border

leaning

name

specification

ticket

bill

checklist

file

number

edge

selvage

log

calendar

statement

cant

bank

count

sheet

tabulation

detail

recite

bend

dip

choice

decline

lurch

name list

inscribe

numerate

program

slate

chronicle

enlist

desire

selvedge

journal

hark

listen

contents

menu

write down

pitch

panel

manifest

form

document

book

make a list

mention

spill

odd number

only

single

sole

registry

note

array

nomination

recommendation

tablet

say

line up

tot up

declaim

deliver

rattle off

render

speak

goods

stock

concentrate on

empty

ruin

squander

bevel

candidate

contender

pick

prospect

address

declare

publish

be disposed to

be prone to

go down

heed over

incline toward

sink

trend toward

wane

list of names

rota

party list

list of items

chit

lie at an angle

lie on one side

bordering strip

careening

address list

mailing list

subscribers

assortment

range

selection

series

set

paper

banking

bead-roll

cartulary

heeling

recruit

strip

listel

cite

curriculum

invoice

give ear

give ear to

give heed

give heed to

hearken

hark to

hearken to

list to

listen to

pay attention

pay attention to

line

age

grow old

case

circumstance

condition

fettle

plight

predicament

situation

status

state

note down

poll

conjugate

hang up

inflect

shelve

tend

trend

verge

acclivity

bent

bias

conjugation

flair

flexion

gradient

inflection

inflexion

penchant

proclivity

propensity

tendency

tipping

check list

data sheet

summary

synopsis

table-look-up

tab

tabulate

databook

detailed list

repertoire

mark

catalogue listing

meter

tableau

timepiece

watch

card

map

classify

statistical table

arrange

clarify

arrangement

combination

compilation

composition

quote

admit for quotation

angle

cock

appreciate

cant over

gravitate

recline

camber

rake

clock up

enter

write off

batten

cleat

furring strip

lag

lath

molding

moulding

stave

itemise

reel off

codex

numbering

relate

guidebook

itemized list

itemization

retell

tell

memo

call

refer

lay out details

parse

spell out

folio

amount

piece of wood

transcribe

queue

alone

check

simple

divide into

begin

bloom

drive

eliminate

expand

found

open

start

make an inventory

take a census

copy

card-index

data structure

onomasticon

bill of fare

computer menu

article

slanting

volume

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪst/

Etymology

table
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, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (“band, strip; hem, selvage; border, edge”), 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”).

Sentences

I'm next on the list , sir .

The list below substantially overlaps with his .