List (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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: a list of members.
  2. list price.
  3. 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. listserv: Please unsubscribe me from the list.
verb (used with object)
  1. to set down together in a list; make a list of: to list the membership of a club.
  2. to enter in a list, directory, catalog, etc.: to list him among the members.
  3. to place on a list of persons to be watched, excluded, restricted, etc.
  4. to print or display in a list: Let's list the whole program and see where the bug is.
  5. to register (a security) on a stock exchange so that it may be traded there.
  6. to enlist.
verb (used without object)
  1. to be offered for sale, as in a catalog, at a specified price: This radio lists at $49.95.
  2. enlist.
noun
  1. a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
  2. a selvage.
  3. selvages collectively.
  4. a strip of cloth or other material.
  5. a strip or band of any kind.
  6. a stripe of color.
  7. a division of the hair or beard.
  8. one of the ridges or furrows of earth made by a lister.
  9. a strip of material, as bark or sapwood, to be trimmed from a board.
  10. fillet (def. 6a).
adjective
  1. made of selvages or strips of cloth.
verb (used with object)
  1. to produce furrows and ridges on (land) with a lister.
  2. to prepare (ground) for planting by making ridges and furrows.
  3. to cut away a narrow strip of wood from the edge of (a stave, plank, etc.).
  4. to apply a border or edge to.
noun
  1. a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.
verb (used without object)
  1. (of a ship or boat) to incline to one side; careen: The ship listed to starboard.
verb (used with object)
  1. to cause (a vessel) to incline to one side: The shifting of the cargo listed the ship to starboard.
verb (used with object)
  1. to please.
  2. to like or desire.
verb (used without object)
  1. to like; wish; choose.
verb (used without object)
  1. to listen.
verb (used with object)
  1. to listen to.
noun
  1. U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.
noun
  1. an item-by-item record of names or things, usually written or printed one under the other
  2. a linearly ordered data structure
  3. to be in a critical medical or physical condition
verb
  1. to make a list of
  2. to include in a list
  3. to declare to be a listed building
  4. to obtain an official quotation for (a security) so that it may be traded on the recognized market
  5. an archaic word for enlist
verb
  1. (esp of ships) to lean over or cause to lean over to one side
noun
  1. the act or an instance of leaning to one side
noun
  1. a border or edging strip, esp of cloth
  2. a less common word for selvage
  3. a strip of bark, sapwood, etc, trimmed from a board or plank
  4. another word for fillet (def. 8)
  5. a strip, band, ridge or furrow
  6. a ridge in ploughed land formed by throwing two furrows together
verb (tr)
  1. to border with or as if with a list or lists
  2. to plough (land) so as to form lists
  3. to cut a list from (a board, plank, etc)
verb
  1. to be pleasing to (a person)
  2. to desire or choose
noun
  1. a liking or desire
verb
  1. an archaic or poetic word for listen
List (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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