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
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
I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven Wright
An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
Fred Allen
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
Stephen Fry
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 have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Joseph R. McCarthy
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
Julius Erving
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
Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
Kate Moss
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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