list
Forms
- Plural
- lists
- present (v1)
- list
- past (v2)
- listed
- past participle (v3)
- listed
- present participle
- listing
- 3rd person singular
- lists
Definitions
1.A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Please add my name to the list.
2.Material used for cloth selvage.
- Please add my name to the list.
3.A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- "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?"
4.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.
- Please add my name to the list.
1.To place in listings.
2.To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
3.To create or recite a list.
4.To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- He raised his eyes and saw / The tree that shone white-listed thro' the gloom.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #660
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
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”).