Definitions for LIST

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LIST list

Spelling: [list]

IPA: /lɪst/

List is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in LIST (ilst).

Definitions for LIST

noun

1. a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
2. list price.
3. Computers. a series of records in a file.
4. a complete record of stocks handled by a stock exchange.
5. all of the books of a publisher that are available for sale.
6. Digital Technology. listserv:
7. a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
8. a selvage.
9. selvages collectively.
10. a strip of cloth or other material.
11. a strip or band of any kind.
12. a stripe of color.
13. a division of the hair or beard.
14. one of the ridges or furrows of earth made by a lister.
15. a strip of material, as bark or sapwood, to be trimmed from a board.
16. fillet (def 6a).
17. a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.
18. Friedrich [free-drik] /ˈfri drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1789–1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.

adjective

1. made of selvages or strips of cloth.

verb (used with object)

1. to set down together in a list; make a list of:
2. to enter in a list, directory, catalog, etc.:
3. to place on a list of persons to be watched, excluded, restricted, etc.
4. Computers. to print or display in a list:
5. to register (a security) on a stock exchange so that it may be traded there.
6. Archaic. enlist.
7. to produce furrows and ridges on (land) with a lister.
8. to prepare (ground) for planting by making ridges and furrows.
9. to cut away a narrow strip of wood from the edge of (a stave, plank, etc.).
10. Obsolete. to apply a border or edge to.
11. to cause (a vessel) to incline to one side:
12. to please.
13. to like or desire.
14. to listen to.

verb (used without object)

1. to be offered for sale, as in a catalog, at a specified price:
2. Archaic. enlist.
3. (of a ship or boat) to incline to one side; careen:
4. to like; wish; choose.
5. to listen.

Origin of LIST

1595-1605; special use of list² (roll of names, perhaps orig. of contestants in the lists); compare French liste Italian lista ro

Examples for LIST

For the purists: A list of changes and corrections to the text.

And so we compiled this list through conversations with colleagues and social media crowd-sourcing.

With all due respect to his athletic skill, Gronkowski is not high on the list of NFL players that elicit carnal thoughts.

Conway goes on to list a series of other coincidences that he suggests are not simply explained.

In fact, he's not even high on the list of NFL players one jerks off too during halftime at Gillette Stadium.

Dear Mr. Ried,—I know the names of all the boys, and inclose you a list.

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

His name, once the most familiar, was forgotten in the list of American bards.

There was the name of Sturt that came first in the list of our old explorers.

The trouble is that we've just had to cut that fine old New York family off our list.