'Listing' definitions:

Definition of 'listing'

(from WordNet)
noun
A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) [syn: list, listing]
noun
The act of making a list of items [syn: listing, itemization, itemisation]

Definition of 'Listing'

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]

Definition of 'Listing'

From: GCIDE
  • Listing \List"ing\, n.
  • 1. The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The selvedge of cloth; list. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Carp.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Agric.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops. [Local, U. S.] [1913 Webster]