list
A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
Noun
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- 1. Gent[leman]. Well: there went but a paire of ſheeres betweene vs. / Luc[io]. I grant: as there may betweene the Liſts, and the Veluet. Thou art the Liſt. / 1. Gent. And thou the Veluet. Thou art good Veluet; thou'rt...
- “Listen! I see it all — down, down even to the stays! Such stays! Six-eight a pair, Polly, with red flannel — or list is it? — that they put into the tops of those fearful things. I can draw you a picture of them.” -...
- Why should we not send a message out over London which would attract to us anyone who might still be alive? I ran across, and pulling at the list-covered rope, I was surprised to find how difficult it was to swing the...
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- Previous to the offering up of prayer, however, the persons chosen for this office [of praying for the people] had divested themselves of their boots and put on list slippers, their hands being washed by "the...
- "How is it, then, that the woman who came into the room about nine left to traces with her muddy boots?" / "I am glad you raise the point. It occurred to me at the time. The charwomen are in the habit of taking off...
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was with Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus. […] And yet...
- "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list. "Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?" - 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A...
- Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. […] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer...
- The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- 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. - 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William...
- With Truncheon tip'd with Iron head, / The Warrior to the Lists [he] led; […] - 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London:...
- 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;...
- 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.
- 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;...
- 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.
- 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...
- A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, the liſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns. - 1788, [John Carter], “STRIÆ”, in The Builder’s Magazine: Or, A Universal Dictionary for Architects,...
- 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...
- A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- A stripe.
- Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that...
- A boundary or limit; a border.
- [W]ere it good / […] to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre? / It were not good for therein ſhould we read / The very bottome and the ſoule of hope, / The very liſt, the very vtmost bound /...
Origin
From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”). Cognates * Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”) * Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”) * German Low German Liest (“edging, border”) * German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”) * Swedish lista (“list”) * Icelandic lista listi (“list”) * Italian lista (“list; strip”) * Portuguese lista (“list”) * Spanish lista (“list, roll; stripe”) * Galician lista (“band, strip; list”) * Finnish lista (“(informal) list; batten”).
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access control list adjacency list alist A-list A list allowlist association list backlist bigot list bill binnacle list blacklist B-list blocklist booklist bucket list buddy list bullet list bulleted list catalog catalogue checklist Christmas list civil list
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enumerated articles listed company listee lister listmaker scheduled territory tick off enlist
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access control list add to the list adjacency list alist A-list A list association list backlist bigot list binnacle list blacklist B-list blocklist blue list booklist bucket list buddy list bullet list bulleted list checklist Christmas list civil list class list C-list
Noun architecture
- A tilt to a building.
- A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
Origin
Uncertain; possibly from tilting on lists in jousts, or from Etymology 4 in the sense of inclining towards what one desires.
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access control list adjacency list alist A-list A list allowlist association list backlist bigot list bill binnacle list blacklist B-list blocklist booklist bucket list buddy list bullet list bulleted list catalog catalogue checklist Christmas list civil list
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enumerated articles listed company listee lister listmaker scheduled territory tick off enlist
Noun archaic, uncountable
- Art; craft; cunning; skill.
- 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." - 1893, S[olomon] C[aesar]...
- For when the guileful monster smiled / Snakes left their holes and hissed,— / And stroking soft his silken beard / Raised creatures full of list. - 1897, Lilian Winser, “Lossenbury Woods”, in Lays and Legends of the...
Origin
From Middle English list, liste (“ability, cleverness, cunning, skill; adroitness, dexterity; strategem, trick; device, design, token”), from Old English list (“art, craft; cleverness, cunning, experience, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz (“art, craft”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs- (“furrow, trace, track, trail”). The word is cognate with Dutch list (“artifice, guile, sleight; ruse, strategem”), German List (“cunning, guile; ploy, ruse, trick”), Low German list (“artifice, cunning; prudence, wisdom”), Icelandic list (“art”), Saterland Frisian list (“cunning, knowledge”), Scots list (“art, craft, skill; cunning”), Swedish list (“art; cunning, guile, wile; ruse, trick; stealth”), and possibly Spanish listo (“clever”). It is also related to learn, lore.
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access control list adjacency list alist A-list A list allowlist association list backlist bigot list bill binnacle list blacklist B-list blocklist booklist bucket list buddy list bullet list bulleted list catalog catalogue checklist Christmas list civil list
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enumerated articles listed company listee lister listmaker scheduled territory tick off enlist
Noun obsolete
- Desire, inclination.
- 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. - c. 1603–1604 (date written), William...
Origin
From Middle English listen, list, liste, leste, lesten (“to choose, desire, wish (to do something)”), from Old English lystan, from Proto-West Germanic *lustijan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijaną, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”). The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian läste (“to wish for, desire, crave”), West Frisian lêste (“to like, desire”), Dutch lusten (“to appreciate, like; to lust”), German lüsten, gelüsten (“to desire, want, crave”), Danish lyste (“to desire, feel like, want”), Faroese lysta (“to desire”). The noun sense is from the verb, or from Middle English list, liste, lest, leste (“desire, wish; craving, longing; enjoyment, joy, pleasure”), which is derived from Middle English listen, list (verb).
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access control list adjacency list alist A-list A list allowlist association list backlist bigot list bill binnacle list blacklist B-list blocklist booklist bucket list buddy list bullet list bulleted list catalog catalogue checklist Christmas list civil list
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enumerated articles listed company listee lister listmaker scheduled territory tick off enlist
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Verb Entry 5
- To create or recite a list.
- To place in listings.
- 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...
- To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- to list a door
- He raised his eyes and saw / The tree that shone white-listed thro' the gloom. - 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 142:
- To plough and plant with a lister.
- To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- to list a board
- To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
- […] It is therefore ordered that the Maior and Aldermen of Colchester [et al.], shall forthwith procure and raise in the said severall townes, and other pleces adjacent, two thousand horses for dragooners, or as manie...
- "I have a gun, madam," said little Julian, "and the park-keeper is to teach me how to fire it next year." / "I will list you for my soldier, then," said the Countess. - 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Peveril of...
- To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- A century later, BR demolished the downside main buildings, so the eastbound and central platforms were promptly listed - which has ensured their survival, albeit increasingly neglected in recent years. This has now...
- To trade on a particular stock exchange.
- Responsible for public affairs, business strategy, corporate development and finance, he [Donald Tang] now faces the task of getting an initial public offering over the line in London after ditching earlier plans to...
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cross-list delist downlist enlist interlist listable lister mislist nolisting relist short-list shortlist unlist
Verb intransitive, poetic
- To listen.
- 2 [Soldier] Peace, what noiſe? / 1 [Soldier] Liſt liſt. / 2 Hearke. / 1 Music i' th' Ayre. - c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
- We list to the trumpings that herald the storm, / To the roll of the drum, and the order to form! - 1860–1861, “What of the Night?”, in Frank Moore, editor, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with...
- Be of good cheer, and list to what I speak. - 1865, Sophocles, “Philoctetes”, in E[dward] H[ayes] Plumptre, transl., The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, volume II, London; New York,...
- To listen to.
- 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. - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William...
Origin
From Middle English listen, from Old English hlystan (“to listen”), from hlyst (“hearing”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlusti, from Proto-Germanic *hlustiz (“hearing”).
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Verb archaic, transitive
- To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
- 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 - c. 1536-1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Yf in the world...
- If thou beeſt a man, ſhew thy ſelfe in thy likeneſs. If thou beeſt a diuell, take't as thou liſt. - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
- 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. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James...
- To be pleasing to.
- Might then I depart, and dwell as listeth me, out of all the world? - 2016, Graydon Saunders, chapter 13, in Safely You Deliver:
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Verb nautical, transport
- To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- The steady wind listed the ship.
- To tilt to one side.
- The ship listed to port.
- Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly. - 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 173: