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list
1[ list ]
noun
- a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
a list of members.
Synonyms: register
- Computers. a series of records in a file.
- a complete record of stocks handled by a stock exchange.
- all of the books of a publisher that are available for sale.
- Digital Technology. listserv:
Please unsubscribe me from the list.
verb (used with object)
- to set down together in a list; make a list of:
to list the membership of a club.
- to enter in a list, directory, catalog, etc.:
to list him among the members.
Synonyms: enroll
- to place on a list of persons to be watched, excluded, restricted, etc.
- Computers. to print or display in a list:
Let's list the whole program and see where the bug is.
- to register (a security) on a stock exchange so that it may be traded there.
- Archaic. to enlist.
verb (used without object)
- to be offered for sale, as in a catalog, at a specified price:
This radio lists at $49.95.
- Archaic. enlist.
list
2[ list ]
noun
- a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
- a selvage.
- selvages collectively.
- a strip of cloth or other material.
- a strip or band of any kind.
- a stripe of color.
- a division of the hair or beard.
- one of the ridges or furrows of earth made by a lister.
- a strip of material, as bark or sapwood, to be trimmed from a board.
adjective
- made of selvages or strips of cloth.
verb (used with object)
- to produce furrows and ridges on (land) with a lister.
- to prepare (ground) for planting by making ridges and furrows.
- to cut away a narrow strip of wood from the edge of (a stave, plank, etc.).
- Obsolete. to apply a border or edge to.
list
3[ list ]
noun
- a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.
verb (used without object)
list
4[ list ]
verb (used with object)
- to please.
- to like or desire.
verb (used without object)
- to like; wish; choose.
list
5[ list ]
verb (used without object)
- to listen.
verb (used with object)
- to listen to.
List
6[ list ]
noun
- Frie·drich [free, -drik], 1789–1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.
list
1/ lɪst /
noun
- an item-by-item record of names or things, usually written or printed one under the other
- computing a linearly ordered data structure
- be on the danger listbe on the danger list to be in a critical medical or physical condition
list
3/ lɪst /
verb
- (esp of ships) to lean over or cause to lean over to one side
noun
- the act or an instance of leaning to one side
list
4/ lɪst /
verb
- to be pleasing to (a person)
- tr to desire or choose
noun
- a liking or desire
list
5/ lɪst /
noun
verb
- to border with or as if with a list or lists
- agriculture to plough (land) so as to form lists
- to cut a list from (a board, plank, etc)
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Derived Forms
- ˈlistable, adjective
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
“Gronkowski” itself never manages to sound more erotic than the name of a hearty Polish stew or a D-list WWE performer.
With all due respect to his athletic skill, Gronkowski is not high on the list of NFL players that elicit carnal thoughts.
In fact, he's not even high on the list of NFL players one jerks off too during halftime at Gillette Stadium.
There is a larger reason, beyond the airlines themselves, why Lion Air and 61 other Indonesian airlines are on this black list.
He gives a list of the sponsors of the baptized Indians, who included many of the French nobility and clergy.
The great Mr. Abrahams had an unlimited commission to secure at any price, a long list of great works.
The Gentleman's Magazine contains a long list of the bridges and churches which attest his reputation and skill.
Throughout the German States the custom of smoking is universal and tobacco enters largely into their list of expenditures.
The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
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