Definitions for lists

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IPA: /lɪsts/

Lists is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in lists (ilsst).

Definitions for lists

noun

1. an enclosed arena for a tilting contest.
2. the barriers enclosing this arena.
3. any place or scene of combat, competition, controversy, etc.
4. a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
5. list price.
6. Computers. a series of records in a file.
7. a complete record of stocks handled by a stock exchange.
8. all of the books of a publisher that are available for sale.
9. Digital Technology. listserv:
10. a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
11. a selvage.
12. selvages collectively.
13. a strip of cloth or other material.
14. a strip or band of any kind.
15. a stripe of color.
16. a division of the hair or beard.
17. one of the ridges or furrows of earth made by a lister.
18. a strip of material, as bark or sapwood, to be trimmed from a board.
19. fillet (def 6a).
20. a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.

Idioms

1. enter the lists, to involve oneself in a conflict or contest:

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 lists

1350-1400; Middle English listes, plural of liste list²

Examples for lists

The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.

At the ends of the lists the squires caught the horses by the bridles and turned them.

He had taken these lists from the drawer of the prisoner's desk.

Commercial airline pilot is consistently placed near the top of “Most Stressful Jobs” lists.

"Your lists, unruly one," said the teacher—one of Napoleon's chief persecutors.

As the year winds to a close, film critics start to unveil their lists of the best films of the year.

The holders of the lists occupied the end which was nearest to the city gate.

Then a truce for to-day; to-morrow, with your good leave, I enter the lists.

He lists them starting with modern sniper rifles going all the way up to anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Instead of statues of generals, we put up monuments to ordinary soldiers, lists of names rather than men on horseback.