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EnglishEdit

 
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A list (enumeration or compilation of a set)

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English list, liste, mostly from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (cognate with Dutch lijst, German Leiste, Icelandic lista/listi). Middle English liste (“border, edging, stripe”) gave rise to the sense of "catalogue of names" by circa 1600; it was influenced by Old French liste or Old Italian lista (both meaning "border, band; strip of paper"), which are themselves from the Germanic word.

NounEdit

list (plural lists)

  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
    • Shakespeare:
      gartered with a red and blue list
  2. Material used for cloth selvage.
    • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton 2005, page 681:
      The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers.
  3. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
    • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2:
      With truncheon tipp'd with iron head, / The warrior to the lists he led.
    • Alexander Pope
      In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      William de Wyvil, and Stephen de Martival, [...] armed at all points, rode up and down the lists to enforce and preserve good order among the spectators.
  4. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the enumeration or compilation itself. [1600]
    • Francis Bacon:
      He was the ablest emperor of all the list.
    • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:
      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 to that list.
  5. (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.
  6. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
    • Shakespeare
      The very list, the very utmost bound, / Of all our fortunes.
  7. (obsolete) A stripe.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)
  8. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
  9. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
  10. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
  11. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
  12. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
TranslationsEdit
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Terms derived from list (noun)

VerbEdit

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

  1. To create or recite a list.
  2. To place in listings.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
    • Walter Scott, The Waverly Novels:
      "I will list you for my soldier, then," said the Countess.
  5. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
  6. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
  7. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
    to list a door
    • Alfred Tennyson:
      The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.
  8. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
    to list a board
  9. To plough and plant with a lister.
  10. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English liste, from Old English list (“art, cleverness, cunning, experience, skill, craft”), from Proto-Germanic *listiz (“craft, art”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”). Cognate with Scots list (“art, skill, craft, cunning”), Saterland Frisian list (“cunning, knowledge”), Dutch list (“ruse, strategem, guile, artifice, sleight”), Low German list (“wisdom, prudence, cunning, artifice”), German List (“cunning, ruse, trick, guile, ploy”), Swedish list (“cunning, art, trick, ruse, wile, guile, stealth”), Icelandic list (“art”), and possibly Spanish listo (“clever”). Related to lore, lere, learn.

NounEdit

list (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
    • 1877, James Clarke & Co, The literary world:
      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.
    • 1893, Solomon Caesar, Original notes on the Book of Proverbs:
      "[...] 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."
    • 1897, Lilian Winser, Lays and legends of the Weald of Kent:
      For when the guileful monster smiled Snakes left their holes and hissed, — And stroking soft his silken beard Raised creatures full of list.
    • 1991, Alexander L. Ringer, The Early romantic era:
      The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed by List ... (List = cunning); [...].
    • 1992, University of Reading. Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, Reading medieval studies:
      The latter wins his fight not by list but through straightforward knightly prowess, [...]
    • 2000, Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, Peter Schreiner, Polypleuros nous:
      It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal, Manuel, as depicted by Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than by list."
    • 2008, Jon B. Sherman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The magician in medieval German literature:
      One man can accomplish with list (magic), that which a thousand could not accomplish, regardless of how strong they were.

Etymology 3Edit

From listen.

VerbEdit

list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle list)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
    • 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra iv 3:
      Peace, what noise? / List, list! / Hark! / Music i' the air.
    • 1878, Edward Hayes Plumptre (transl.), Philoctetes, line 1267.
      Neop. Be of good cheer, and list to what I speak.
    • 1889, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), Agamemnon, page 66 in The House of Atreus, 2nd edition,
      Albeit ye know its message. Praise or blame,
      Even as ye list,—I reck not of your words.
    • Frank Moore
      We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,
      To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
  2. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
    • Shakespeare:
      Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, / If with too credent ear you list his songs.
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts,[1] or from the same root as the "desire" etymology.[2]

NounEdit

list (plural lists)

  1. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
  2. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

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

  1. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
    the ship listed to port
  2. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
    the steady wind listed the ship
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Etymology 5Edit

Old English lystan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijaną, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”). Akin to Old Norse lysta (whence cognate with Danish and Norwegian lyste), Old High German lusten (German gelüsten and obsolete lüsten).

VerbEdit

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

  1. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  2. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2
      If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy / likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy
      Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they list; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths, — if they be pitiless infernal gods!
    • 1959, Leo Strauss, "What is Political Philosophy?", in What is Political Philosophy?, page 51:
      License consists in doing what one lists; liberty consists in doing in the right manner the good only;
    • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, page 413:
      The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.
Derived termsEdit
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NounEdit

list

  1. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20120420085028/http://www.drbilllong.com/CurrentEventsV/ListWII.html
  2. ^ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=list

AnagramsEdit

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

list m

  1. leaf (green and flat organ of vegetative plants)
  2. letter (written message)
  3. sheet (sheet of paper)
  4. newspaper
    Polský list Dziennik Gazeta Prawna nejdříve napsal, že polská hlava státu podepíše dokument ve středu. (iDNES)
  5. certificate (document containing a certified statement)
    rodný list -- birth certificate
    úmrtní list -- death certificate

DeclensionEdit

Declension of list
singular plural
nominative list listy
genitive listu listů
dative listu listům
accusative list listy
vocative liste listy
locative listu, listě listech
instrumental listem listy

Derived termsEdit

Related terms

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • list in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • list in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

DanishEdit

NounEdit

list c (singular definite listen, not used in plural form)

  1. cunning, trick

VerbEdit

list

  1. imperative of liste

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch list, from Old Dutch list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

NounEdit

list f (plural listen, diminutive listje n)

  1. a cunning plan

AnagramsEdit

FaroeseEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

list f (genitive singular listar, plural listir)

  1. art

DeclensionEdit

Declension of list
f2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listir listirnar
accusative list listina listir listirnar
dative list listini listum listunum
genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

IcelandicEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

list f (genitive singular listar, nominative plural listir)

  1. art

DeclensionEdit

declension of list
f-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listir listirnar
accusative list listina listir listirnar
dative list listinni listum listunum
genitive listar listarinnar lista listanna

Derived termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

Lower SorbianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

list m (diminutive listk)

  1. leaf, foliage
  2. letter (a written message)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of list
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative list lista listy
Genitive lista listowu listow
Dative listoju listoma listam
Accusative list lista listy
Instrumental listom listoma listami
Locative lisće listoma listach

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse list

NounEdit

list m, f (definite singular lista or listen)

  1. cunning, craftiness, slyness

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

list

  1. imperative of liste

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse list

NounEdit

list f (definite singular lista)

  1. cunning, craftiness, slyness

ReferencesEdit

Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *listiz. Cognate with Old Saxon list, Dutch list, Old High German list (German List), Old Norse list (Swedish list).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

list f

  1. art; cunning, guile, craft

DeclensionEdit

Declension of list (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative list lista, liste
accusative liste lista, liste
genitive liste lista
dative liste listum

DescendantsEdit

Old SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.

NounEdit

list f

  1. skill, proficiency
  2. art, craft
  3. cunning, slyness
  4. resort

DeclensionEdit

Declension of list (i-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative list listin listi(r), -e(r) listina(r), -ena(r)
accusative list listina, -ena listi(r), -e(r) listina(r), -ena(r)
dative list listinni, -inne listum, -om listumin, -omen
genitive lista(r) listinna(r) lista listanna

DescendantsEdit

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

list m inan (diminutive liścik)

  1. letter (a written message)

DeclensionEdit

declension of list
singular plural
nominative list listy
genitive listu listów
dative listowi listom
accusative list listy
instrumental listem listami
locative liście listach
vocative liście listy

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • list in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

lȋst m (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ст)

  1. leaf
  2. (computing) leaf
  3. sole (fish)
  4. letter (written message)
  5. sheet of paper
  6. calf (leg part)
  7. a special purpose certificate, e.g. of birth, ownership etc.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of list
singular plural
nominative lȋst lȉstovi
genitive lista lȉstōvā
dative listu listovima
accusative list listove
vocative listu listovi
locative listu listovima
instrumental listom listovima

ReferencesEdit

  • “list” in Hrvatski jezični portal

SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

list m (genitive singular listu, lista, nominative plural listy, genitive plural listov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. letter; a written message
  2. leaf; a part of a tree
  3. sheet; a piece of paper

DeclensionEdit

Declension of list
singular plural
nominative list listy
genitive listu, lista listov
dative listu listom
accusative list listy
locative liste listoch
instrumental listom listami

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • list in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

líst m inan (genitive lísta, nominative plural lísti)

  1. piece of paper
  2. leaf
  3. sole
  4. (anatomy) calf (leg part)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of líst (masculine inan., hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative líst lísta lísti
accusative líst lísta líste
genitive lísta lístov lístov
dative lístu lístoma lístom
locative lístu lístih lístih
instrumental lístom lístoma lísti

Related termsEdit

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Swedish list, from Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs-. Cognate with Icelandic list.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

list c

  1. smartness, trick, cunning
  2. a strip (of wood or metal, a thin and long board), a border, a beading
  3. (graphical user interface) a bar

DeclensionEdit

Declension of list 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative list listen lister listerna
Genitive lists listens listers listernas

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

Upper SorbianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

NounEdit

list m

  1. letter
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