list | |
1. n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. | |
2. n. Material used for cloth selvage. | |
3. n. A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. | |
4. n. (in the historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments. | |
5. n. (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 mor | |
6. n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel. | |
7. n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank. | |
8. n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker. | |
9. n. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated. | |
10. n. (obsolete) A stripe. | |
11. n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border. | |
12. v. To create or recite a list. | |
13. v. To place in listings. | |
14. v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border. | |
15. v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list. | |
to list a door | |
16. v. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister. | |
17. v. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe. | |
18. v. (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of. | |
to list a board | |
19. v. (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat. | |
20. v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist. | |
21. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist. | |
22. n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill. | |
23. v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen. | |
24. v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to. | |
25. v. (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to. | |
26. v. (transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something). | |
27. n. (obsolete) Desire, inclination. | |
28. n. (architecture) A tilt to a building. | |
29. n. (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power. | |
30. v. (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side. | |
the steady wind listed the ship | |
31. v. (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side. | |
the ship listed to port | |