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Webster 1913 Edition

List

List

(lĭst)
,
Noun.
[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.
In measured
lists
to toss the weighty lance.
Pope.
To enter the lists
,
to accept a challenge, or engage in contest.

List

,
Verb.
T.
To inclose for combat;
as, to
list
a field
.

List

,
Verb.
I.
[See
Listen
.]
To hearken; to attend; to listen.
[Obs. except in poetry.]
Stand close, and
list
to him.
Shakespeare

List

,
Verb.
T.
To listen or hearken to.
Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain,
If with too credent ear you
list
his songs.
Shakespeare

List

,
Verb.
I.
[OE.
listen
,
lusten
, AS.
lystan
, from
lust
pleasure. See
Lust
.]
1.
To desire or choose; to please.
The wind bloweth where it
listeth
.
John iii. 8.
Them that add to the Word of God what them
listeth
.
Hooker.
Let other men think of your devices as they
list
.
Whitgift.
2.
(Naut.)
To lean; to incline;
as, the ship
lists
to port
.

List

,
Noun.
1.
Inclination; desire.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
(Naut.)
An inclination to one side;
as, the ship has a
list
to starboard
.

List

,
Noun.
[AS.
līst
a list of cloth; akin to D.
lijst
, G.
leiste
, OHG.
līsta
, 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.
2.
A limit or boundary; a border.
The very
list
, the very utmost bound,
Of all our fortunes.
Shakespeare
3.
The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
4.
A stripe.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
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.
He was the ablest emperor of all the
list
.
Bacon.
6.
(Arch.)
A little square molding; a fillet; – called also
listel
.
7.
(Carp.)
A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
8.
(Rope Making)
A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
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.
Syn. – Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule.
–
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.

List

(lĭst)
,
Verb.
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.
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.
The tree that stood white-
listed
through the gloom.
Tennyson.
3.
To enroll; to place or register in a list.
Listed
among the upper serving men.
Milton.
4.
To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
I will
list
you for my soldier.
Sir W. Scott.
5.
(Carp.)
To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of;
as, to
list
a board
.
To list a stock
(Stock Exchange)
,
to put it in the list of stocks called at the meeting of the board.

List

,
Verb.
I.
To engage in public service by enrolling one’s name; to enlist.

Webster 1828 Edition

List

LIST

,
Noun.
[L. licium.]
1.
In commerce, the border, edge or selvage of cloth; a strip of cloth forming the border, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it.
2.
A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. Hence, to enter the lists, is to accept a challenge or engage in contest. Hence,
3.
A limit or boundary; a border.
4.
In architecture, a little square molding; a fillet; called also a listel.
5.
A roll or catalogue, that is, a row or line; as a list of names; a list of books; a list of articles; a list of ratable estate.
6.
A strip of cloth; a fillet.
Civil list, in Great Britain and the United States, the civil officers of government, as judges, embassadors, secretaries, &c. Hence it is used for the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers.

LIST

,
Verb.
T.
[from list, a roll.]
1.
To enroll; to register in a list or catalogue; to enlist. The latter is the more elegant word. Hence,
2.
To engage in the public service, as soldiers.
They in my name are listed.
3.
To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
4.
To sew together, as strips of cloth; or to form a border.
5.
To cover with a list, or with strips of cloth; as, to list a door.
6.
To hearken; to attend; a contraction of listen, which see.

LIST

,
Verb.
I.
To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist. [The latter is the more elegant word. See Enlist.]

LIST

,
Verb.
I.
[See the noun.]
Properly, to lean or incline; to be propense; hence, to desire or choose.
Let other men think of your devices as they list.
The wind bloweth where it listeth. John 3.

LIST

,
Noun.
In the language of seamen, an inclination to one side. The ship has a list to port.

Definition 2024

List

List

See also: list and līst

German

Noun

List f ‎(genitive List, plural Listen)

  1. cunning; craft
  2. trick

Declension

Usage notes

  • "mit List und Tücke" may be translated as "with patience and a snare"

Derived terms

list

list

See also: List and līst

English

A list (enumeration or compilation of a set)

Noun

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.
Translations
Synonyms
  • See also Wikisaurus:list
Derived terms

Verb

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 terms
Translations

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

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 3

From listen.

Verb

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.
    • 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.
Translations

Etymology 4

Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts.[1]

Noun

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.
Translations

Verb

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
Translations

Etymology 5

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).

Verb

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 terms
Translations

Noun

list

  1. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

Anagrams

References

  1. ↑

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ ‎(“leaf”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Danish

Noun

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

  1. cunning, trick

Verb

list

  1. imperative of liste

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪst
  • IPA(key): /lɪst/

Etymology

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

Noun

list f ‎(plural listen, diminutive listje n)

  1. a cunning plan

Anagrams

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɪst
  • Homophone: lyst

Noun

list f (genitive singular listar, plural listir)

  1. art

Declension

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɪst
  • Homophone: lyst

Noun

list f ‎(genitive singular listar, nominative plural listir)

  1. art

Declension

Derived terms

  • listasafn
  • listasaga
  • listaverk
  • listasalur

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ ‎(“leaf”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lʲist]

Noun

list m ‎(diminutive listk)

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

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse list

Noun

list m, f ‎(definite singular lista or listen)

  1. cunning, craftiness, slyness

Etymology 2

Verb

list

  1. imperative of liste

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse list

Noun

list f ‎(definite singular lista)

  1. cunning, craftiness, slyness

References

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

list f

  1. art; cunning, guile, craft

Declension

Descendants

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

list f

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

Declension

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ ‎(“leaf”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lʲis̪t̪]

Noun

list m inan ‎(diminutive liścik)

  1. letter (a written message)

Declension

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ ‎(“leaf”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lîːst/

Noun

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.

Declension

References

  • “list” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ ‎(“leaf”).

Noun

list m

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ ‎(“leaf”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlíːst/
  • Tonal orthography: lȋst

Noun

líst m inan ‎(genitive lísta, nominative plural lísti)

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

Declension

Related terms

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Declension

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

Related terms

See also

References

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ ‎(“leaf”).

Noun

list m

  1. letter

Etymology

From Middle High German list, from Old High German list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz ‎(“craft, cunning, knowledge”). Cognate with English list ‎(“art, craft, cunning”). More at list.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪst/

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