list
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.Examples: "On pain of death, no person be so bold Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists, Except the marshal and such officers Appointed to direct these fair designs."; "With Truncheon tip'd with Iron head, / The Warrior to the Lists [he] led; […]"; "Ariſe, O Father of the Trojan State! / The Nations call, thy joyful People wait, / To ſeal the Truce and end the dire Debate. / Paris thy Son, and Sparta’s King advance, / In meaſur’d Liſts to toſs the weighty Lance; […]"historicalin-plural
2. (in the plural, military, historical) 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.Examples: "The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”"historicalin-plural
3. (computing, programming) 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.Examples: "Lisp is an applicative language. This means that it is structured around applying functions (operations) to a linked list of arguments that accompany those functions. […] A function call or function definition is only coded in the syntax of a list, which can be of an indefinite length. Thus, the list is the only data structure for a Lisp program."
4. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.Examples: "STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, the liſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns."; "A volute is a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and Composite capitals, of which it makes the principal characteristic and ornament. […] There are several diversities practised in the volute. In some, the list or edge, throughout all the circumvolutions, is in the same line or plane. […] [I]n others, the canal or one circumvolution is detached from the list of another by a vacuity or aperture."
5. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
6. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To create or recite a list.Synonyms: tabulatetransitive
2. (transitive) To place in listings.Examples: "As the export market for tropical hardwoods expanded, timber from tropical rain forests very rapidly became the dominant or major forest product, dominant to such an extent that trade figures often do not even list the minor forest products exported, or their value."transitive
3. (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.transitive
4. (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.Examples: "to list a door"; "He raised his eyes and saw / The tree that shone white-listed thro' the gloom."transitive
5. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.transitive
6. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.Southern-UStransitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.Examples: "In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry."; "Sophos, fab[le] 40. "The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within.""; "For when the guileful monster smiled / Snakes left their holes and hissed,— / And stroking soft his silken beard / Raised creatures full of list."Synonyms: cunningarchaicuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.Examples: "2 [Soldier] Peace, what noiſe? / 1 [Soldier] Liſt liſt. / 2 Hearke. / 1 Music i' th' Ayre."; "We list to the trumpings that herald the storm, / To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!"; "Be of good cheer, and list to what I speak."intransitivepoetic
2. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.Examples: "Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity."poetictransitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).Examples: "who liſt to lyue yn quyetnes by me lett hym beware For I by highe dyſdayne ame made withoute redreſſe and vnkyndenes Alas hathe ſlayne my poore trew hart all comfortles"; "If thou beeſt a man, ſhew thy ſelfe in thy likeneſs. If thou beeſt a diuell, take't as thou liſt."; "The winde bloweth where it liſteth, and thou heareſt the ſound thereof, but canſt not tel whence it commeth, and whither it goeth: So is euery one that is borne of the Spirit."archaictransitive
2. (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to.Examples: "Might then I depart, and dwell as listeth me, out of all the world?"archaictransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Desire, inclination.Examples: "I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary