'List' definitions:
Definition of 'list'
From: WordNet
noun
A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) [syn: list, listing]
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" [syn: tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning]
verb
Give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of; "List the states west of the Mississippi" [syn: list, name]
verb
Include in a list; "Am I listed in your register?"
verb
Cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree" [syn: list, lean]
verb
Tilt to one side; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard" [syn: list, heel]
verb
Enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians" [syn: number, list]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\, v. t. To listen or hearken to. [1913 Webster]
- Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\, n.
- 1. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\ (l[i^]st), n. [F. lice, LL. liciae, pl., from L. licium thread, girdle.] A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- In measured lists to toss the weighty lance. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- To enter the lists, to accept a challenge, or engage in contest. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\, n. [AS. l[imac]st a list of cloth; akin to D. lijst, G. leiste, OHG. l[imac]sta, Icel. lista, listi, Sw. list, Dan. liste. In sense 5 from F. liste, of German origin, and thus ultimately the same word.]
- 1. A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet. "Gartered with a red and blue list." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A limit or boundary; a border. [1913 Webster]
- The very list, the very utmost bound, Of all our fortunes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A stripe. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A roll or catalogue, that is, row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate. [1913 Webster]
- He was the ablest emperor of all the list. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Tin-plate Manuf.) (a) The first thin coat of tin. (b) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated. [1913 Webster]
- Civil list (Great Britain & U.S.), the civil officers of government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc. Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers. More recently, the civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the reigning monarch's household.
- Free list. (a) A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty. (b) A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.
- Syn: Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule.
- Usage: List, Roll, Catalogue, Register, Inventory, Schedule. A list is properly a simple series of names, etc., in a brief form, such as might naturally be entered in a narrow strip of paper. A roll was originally a list containing the names of persons belonging to a public body (as Parliament, etc.), which was rolled up and laid aside among its archives. A catalogue is a list of persons or things arranged in order, and usually containing some description of the same, more or less extended. A register is designed for record or preservation. An inventory is a list of articles, found on hand in a store of goods, or in the estate of a deceased person, or under similar circumstances. A schedule is a formal list or inventory prepared for legal or business purposes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\, v. t. To inclose for combat; as, to list a field. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\, v. i. [See Listen.] To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.] [1913 Webster]
- Stand close, and list to him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\, v. i. [OE. listen, lusten, AS. lystan, from lust pleasure. See Lust.]
- 1. To desire or choose; to please. [1913 Webster]
- The wind bloweth where it listeth. --John iii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- Let other men think of your devices as they list. --Whitgift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\, v. i. To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\ (l[i^]st), v. t.
- 1. To plow and plant with a lister. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. [Southern U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'List'
From: GCIDE
- List \List\ (l[i^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Listed; p. pr. & vb. n. Listing.] [From list a roll.]
- 1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list. [1913 Webster]
- The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To enroll; to place or register in a list. [1913 Webster]
- Listed among the upper serving men. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist. [1913 Webster]
- I will list you for my soldier. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board. [1913 Webster]
- To list a stock (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of stocks called at the meeting of the board. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'list'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- adhesive tape,
- adjoin,
- alphabetize,
- analyze,
- angularity,
- annals,
- arena,
- arrange,
- ascend,
- assort,
- backset,
- band,
- bandage,
- bank,
- bar,
- batten,
- beading,
- beadroll,
- befringe,
- belt,
- bibliography,
- bind,
- binding,
- board,
- book,
- border,
- bordering,
- bordure,
- bound,
- break down,
- brim,
- brink,
- brow,
- calendar,
- call up,
- cant,
- capsize,
- careen,
- carve,
- catalog,
- catalogue,
- catalogue raisonne,
- categorize,
- cellophane tape,
- census,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- check in,
- checklist,
- chronicle,
- cincture,
- class,
- classify,
- climb,
- close,
- cloth tape,
- coast,
- codify,
- come a cropper,
- commandeer,
- composition,
- confine,
- conscript,
- constituents,
- container,
- content,
- contents,
- coop,
- correspondence,
- court,
- courtyard,
- crack,
- craze,
- cultivate,
- culture,
- curtilage,
- cut,
- decline,
- delimited field,
- delve,
- descend,
- detach,
- detach for service,
- dig,
- digest,
- dip,
- directory,
- divide,
- divisions,
- docket,
- documentation,
- draft,
- dress,
- drop,
- edge,
- edging,
- elements,
- enclave,
- enclosure,
- enframe,
- engrave,
- enlist,
- enroll,
- enscroll,
- enter,
- enumerate,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall off,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- fallow,
- fascia,
- featheredge,
- fertilize,
- field,
- file,
- fill out,
- fillet,
- fimbria,
- fimbriation,
- flange,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fold,
- force,
- frame,
- friction tape,
- frill,
- frilling,
- fringe,
- furbelow,
- galloon,
- get a cropper,
- girdle,
- go downhill,
- go uphill,
- grade,
- grave,
- ground,
- group,
- guts,
- handlist,
- harrow,
- heel,
- hem,
- history,
- hoe,
- impanel,
- impress,
- incise,
- inclination,
- incline,
- index,
- induct,
- ingredients,
- innards,
- inscribe,
- insert,
- insides,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- items,
- join,
- jot down,
- keel,
- keep score,
- labellum,
- labium,
- labrum,
- lap,
- lath,
- lay down,
- lean,
- lean over,
- leaning,
- leaning tower,
- ledge,
- letters,
- levy,
- lie along,
- ligula,
- ligule,
- limb,
- limbus,
- line,
- lip,
- listing,
- log,
- lurch,
- make a memorandum,
- make a note,
- make an entry,
- make out,
- march,
- marge,
- margin,
- marginate,
- mark down,
- masking tape,
- matriculate,
- memorial,
- minute,
- mobilize,
- motif,
- mulch,
- muster,
- muster in,
- Mystik tape,
- note,
- note down,
- numerate,
- order,
- pale,
- paling,
- park,
- part,
- particularize,
- parts,
- pen,
- pigeonhole,
- pipe roll,
- pitch,
- place,
- place upon record,
- plank,
- plastic tape,
- plow,
- poll,
- post,
- post up,
- press,
- program,
- prune,
- purfle,
- purl,
- put down,
- put in writing,
- put on paper,
- put on tape,
- quad,
- quadrangle,
- ragged edge,
- raise,
- rake,
- range,
- rank,
- rate,
- recline,
- record,
- recording,
- recruit,
- reduce to writing,
- register,
- registry,
- relic,
- remains,
- retreat,
- ribband,
- ribbon,
- rim,
- rise,
- roll,
- roll call,
- rolls,
- roster,
- rota,
- ruffle,
- schedule,
- score,
- Scotch tape,
- scroll,
- selvage,
- set down,
- set off,
- shelve,
- shore,
- shred,
- side,
- sideline,
- sidle,
- sign on,
- sign up,
- skirt,
- skirting,
- slant,
- slat,
- slate,
- slip,
- slope,
- sort,
- spade,
- specialize,
- specify,
- spill,
- spline,
- sprawl,
- spread-eagle,
- square,
- stagger,
- strake,
- strap,
- streak,
- streaking,
- stria,
- striation,
- striature,
- striga,
- striola,
- strip,
- stripe,
- striping,
- strop,
- stumble,
- subdivide,
- summon,
- swag,
- sway,
- table,
- tabulate,
- tabulation,
- taenia,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- take down,
- tally,
- tape,
- tape measure,
- tape-record,
- tapeline,
- theater,
- thin,
- thin out,
- tick off,
- ticker tape,
- till,
- till the soil,
- tilt,
- tip,
- toft,
- token,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- totter,
- tower of Pisa,
- trace,
- trim,
- trimming,
- trip,
- tumble,
- turn turtle,
- type,
- uprise,
- valance,
- verge,
- vestige,
- videotape,
- weed,
- weed out,
- welt,
- whole,
- work,
- write,
- write down,
- write in,
- write out,
- write up,
- yard
Words containing 'List'
- Listed,
- Listful,
- Listing,
- Black list,
- Check list,
- Civil list,
- FAQ list,
- Free list,
- Lloyd's list,
- Price list,
- Retired list,
- Sick list,
- Stock list,
- To enter the lists,
- To list a stock,
- White list,
- a-list,
- class list,
- distribution list,
- grocery list,
- hit list,
- honours list,
- list price,
- list processing,
- list system,
- listed security,
- mailing list,
- play list,
- shopping list,
- short list,
- waiting list,
- wish list,
- Scrutin de liste,
- push-down list,
- list-processing language,
- scrutin de liste system