Definition of List

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Definition of List

List

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.

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

To hearken; to attend; to listen.

To listen or hearken to.

To desire or choose; to please.

To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.

Inclination; desire.

An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.

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.

A limit or boundary; a border.

The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.

A stripe.

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.

A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.

A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.

The first thin coat of tin.

A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.

To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.

To enroll; to place or register in a list.

To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.

To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.

To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

To plow and plant with a lister.

In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.

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List Quotations

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven Wright

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
Jack Nicholson

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.
Lee Trevino

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
Alfred Hitchcock

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
Jeff Foxworthy

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

List Translations

list in Afrikaans is lys
list in Danish is liste
list in Dutch is uitlisten, een lijst maken
list in Finnish is lista
list in German is auflisten, Liste, auflisten
list in Italian is numerare, elenco, registro
list in Portuguese is lista
list in Spanish is detallar, listar, catalogo, lista

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