list

Noun

list (plural lists)

1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], lines 27–34, page 62, column 1:

     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 a three pild-piece I warrant thee: I had as liefe be a Lyſt of an Engliſh Kerſey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French Veluet. Do I ſpeake feelingly now?

     1st Gentleman. Well, you and I are cut from the same cloth. / Lucio. I agree: just as the lists [scraps from the edge of the cloth] and the velvet are from the same cloth. You are the list. / 1st Gentleman. And you are the velvet. You are good velvet; you are a three-piled piece, I'll bet. I would willingly be a list of an English kersey, than be full of piles [haemorrhoids], as you are piled, like a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?

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. A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. [from 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, pages 72–73:

     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.

4. (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting 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.

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. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
7. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
8. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
9. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
10. (obsolete) A stripe.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

11. (obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border.
    • Shakespeare

      The very list, the very utmost bound, / Of all our fortunes.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To create or recite a list.
2. (transitive) To place in listings.
3. (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)

4. (transitive) 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.

5. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
6. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
7. (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

   to list a board

8. (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
9. (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.

10. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

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.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii], page 359, column 1:

     2 [Soldier] Peace, what noiſe? / 1 [Soldier] Liſt liſt. / 2 Hearke. / 1 Music i' th' Ayre.

   • 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.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: Printed by I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     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.

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.

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to.
2. (transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
   • 1536–42, Thomas Wyatt, "If in the world there be more woe" [modernized spelling]:

     Who list to live in quietness

     By me let him beware ...

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], page 12, column 2:

     If thou beeſt a man, ſhew thy ſelfe in thy likeneſs. If thou beeſt a diuell, take't as thou liſt.

   • 1611, King James Version, John 3:8:

     The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

   • 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.

Noun

list

1. (obsolete) Desire, inclination.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: Printed by N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, OCLC 724111485, [Act II, scene i], page 24:

     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.

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See also

• doklad
• dokument

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Noun

list m, f (definite singular lista or listen)

1. cunning, craftiness, slyness

Verb

list

1. imperative of liste

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Descendants

• Middle English: liste
  • Scots: list
  • English: list

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Descendants

• Swedish: list

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Derived terms

• listonosz

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Derived terms

• listový
• lístok
• lístkový
• lístoček
• listisko

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Related terms

• lístje

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Related terms

• golvlist
• kromlist
• listig
• statuslist

See also

• lista
• lust