list in English dictionary

  • list

    Meanings and definitions of "list"

    • A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
    • Material used for cloth selvage.
    • (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
    • A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items.
    • (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.
    • To create or recite a list.
    • To place in listings.
    • (nautical) a tilting or careening manoeuvre, which causes the ship to roll. Usually used to describe tilting not under a ship's own power.
    • (architecture) a tilt to a building.
    • (nautical) to carry out such a manoeuvre
    • (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
    • (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Inclination; desire.
    • noun
      A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
    • noun
      Material used for cloth selvage.
    • noun
      (in the plural)
      The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
    • noun
      A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the enumeration or compilation itself. [1600]
    • noun
      (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.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      A limit or boundary; a border.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      A stripe.
    • noun
      (architecture)
      A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
    • noun
      (carpentry)
      A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
    • noun
      (ropemaking)
      A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
    • noun
      (tin-plate manufacture)
      The first thin coating of tin.
    • noun
      (tin-plate manufacture)
      A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
    • noun
      (nautical)
      A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
    • noun
      (architecture)
      A tilt to a building.
    • noun
      (archaic)
      Art; craft; cunning; skill.
    • verb
      (intransitive, poetic)
      To listen.
    • verb
      (transitive, poetic)
      To listen to.
    • verb
      (archaic, transitive)
      To be pleasing to.
    • verb
      (archaic)
      To wish, like, desire (to do something).
    • verb
      To create or recite a list.
    • verb
      To place in listings.
    • verb
      (intransitive, obsolete)
      To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
    • verb
      (transitive, obsolete)
      To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
    • verb
      To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
    • verb
      To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
    • verb
      (carpentry)
      To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
    • verb
      To plough and plant with a lister.
    • verb
      (US, Southern US)
      To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
    • verb
      (nautical)
      To tilt to one side.
    • verb
      (nautical)
      To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
    • A table of records located in the main area for each entity in the user interface.
    • 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
    • to create or recite a list
    • ruin (a country)
    • table (e.g. Tab 1)
    • inscribing on the face of
    • go down (sun)
    • To make a list of.
    • noun
      a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
    • noun
      the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
    • verb
      cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
    • verb
      enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
    • verb
      give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of; "List the states west of the Mississippi"
    • verb
      include in a list; "Am I listed in your register?"
    • verb
      tilt to one side; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard"

    Synonyms of "list" in English dictionary

    database, itemize, tilt are the top synonyms of "list" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of list

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

    Meanings and definitions of "list"

    • A SmartArt graphic layout type that includes layouts designed to show nonsequential information.
  • LIST
  • LiST

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