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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Derived terms 1.3.1.3 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.1.1 Translations 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Noun 1.5.1.1 Translations 1.5.2 Verb 1.5.2.1 Translations 1.6 Etymology 5 1.6.1 Verb 1.6.1.1 Derived terms 1.6.1.2 Translations 1.7 Anagrams 2 Czech 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Derived terms 2.3.2 See also 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.3 Anagrams 4 Faroese 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Declension 5 Icelandic 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 5.2.1 Declension 5.2.2 Derived terms 5.3 Anagrams 6 Lower Sorbian 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Noun 7 Old English 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Pronunciation 7.3 Noun 7.3.1 Declension 8 Polish 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Pronunciation 8.3 Noun 8.3.1 Declension 8.3.2 Derived terms 9 Serbo-Croatian 9.1 Etymology 9.2 Noun 9.2.1 Declension 10 Slovak 10.1 Etymology 10.2 Noun 11 Slovene 11.1 Etymology 11.2 Noun 11.2.1 Related terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪst/, SAMPA: /lIst/

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  Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

Old English līste. Cognate with Dutch lijst, German Leiste, Icelandic lista/listi.

Noun

list (plural lists)

1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
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. (in plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
   • 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.

Translations

a strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth

Polish: krajka f.

material used for cloth selvage (in plural) the palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments

Etymology 2

From Middle English liste (“roll of names, contestants in the lists”) (from lists (“place of combat at the boundary of fields”) from Middle English listes, plural of liste (“list”)) from Old English līste (“list, fringe, border”)

Noun

list (plural lists)

1. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items.
2. (computing) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing.
3. (programming, LISP) A data structure that is fundamental to the LISP language. A list is defined recursively: it may be nil or it may consist of a header (the first element) and a tail (the remainder; the tail may be nil). Both header and tail are lists.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:list

Derived terms

Terms derived from list (noun)

association list blacklist bullet list checklist clout list comma separated list definition list

grocery list hit list laundry list mailing list material list punch list set list

short list stop list to-do list waiting list whitelist wine list wish list

Translations

register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items

Arabic: قائِمة ar(ar) (qaa'ima(t)) f. Bengali: তালিকা bn(bn) (talika) Chinese: 单子 (dānzi) Czech: seznam cs(cs) m. Dutch: lijst nl(nl) f. Esperanto: listo eo(eo) Estonian: loend et(et) Finnish: lista fi(fi) French: liste fr(fr) f. German: Liste de(de) f. Greek: κατάλογος el(el) m. Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: lista hu(hu) Indonesian: daftar id(id) Irish: liosta ga(ga)

Italian: lista it(it) f. Japanese: 一覧 (ichiran), リスト (risuto) Korean: 명부 (myeongbu) Latin: please add this translation if you can Limburgish: lies Persian: فهرست fa(fa) (fehrest) Polish: lista pl(pl) f., spis pl(pl) m. Portuguese: lista pt(pt) f. Russian: список ru(ru) (spísok) m. Scots: leet Slovak: zoznam sk(sk) m. Slovene: seznam sl(sl) m. Spanish: lista es(es) f. Swedish: lista sv(sv) c. Telugu: జాబితా te(te) (jaabitaa)

computing: codified representation of a list

Czech: seznam cs(cs) m. Dutch: lijst nl(nl) f. Finnish: lista fi(fi) German: Liste de(de) f.

Japanese: リスト ja(ja) (risuto) Persian: فهرست fa(fa) (fehrest) Polish: lista pl(pl) f.

LISP: data structure made up of a header and a tail, the latter containing either another list or nil

Czech: seznam cs(cs) m. Dutch: lijst nl(nl) f.

Persian: فهرست fa(fa) (fehrest)

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Translations to be checked

French: liste fr(fr) f. Norwegian: liste no(no) m. and f.

Swahili: orodha (noun 9/10) Swedish: lista sv(sv) c.

Verb

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

1. To create or recite a list.
2. To place in listings.

Translations

to create or recite a list

Estonian: loetlema et(et) Finnish: listata fi(fi), luetella fi(fi) French: lister fr(fr) German: aufzählen de(de) Japanese: 列記する (rekki-suru), リストする (risuto suru) Norwegian: liste no(no)

Persian: فهرست کردن fa(fa) (fehrest kardan) Polish: spisać / spisywać, wymienić / wymieniać, katalogować / skatalogować Russian: вносить в список ru(ru), составлять список ru(ru), регистрировать ru(ru) Slovene: naštevati Spanish: hacer una lista, leer una lista Swahili: kuorodesha

Etymology 3

From listen

Verb

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

1. To listen
   • 1607 — William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra iv 3

     Peace, what noise? / List, list! / Hark! / Music i' the air.

Translations

to listen

Polish: (intransitive) słyszeć, (transitive) słuchać

Etymology 4

Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts.[1]

Noun

list (plural lists)

1. (nautical) a tilting or careening manoeuvre, which causes the ship to roll. Usually used to describe tilting not under a ship's own power.
2. (architecture) a tilt to a building.

Translations

a tilting or careening manoeuvre

Polish: przechył m.

Verb

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

1. (nautical) to carry out such a manoeuvre

Translations

to carry out such a manoeuvre

Polish: mieć przechył

Etymology 5

Old English lystan, from Proto-Germanic *lustjan, from *lustus (“pleasure”). Akin to Old Norse lysta (whence cognate with Danish and Norwegian lyste), Old High German lusten (German gelüsten and obsolete lüsten).

Verb

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

1. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
2. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
   • 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!

   • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 413:

     The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.

Derived terms

• listless

Translations

to be pleasing to

Polish: podobać się pl(pl)

to wish, like, desire

Polish: życzyć sobie

Anagrams

• lits
• silt
• slit

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

list m.

1. leaf (green and flat organ of vegetative plants)
2. letter (written message)
3. sheet (sheet of paper)
4. newspaper

   Polský list Dziennik Gazeta Prawna nejdříve napsal, že polská hlava státu podepíše dokument ve středu. (iDNES)

5. certificate (document containing a certified statement)

   rodný list -- birth certificate

   úmrtní list -- death certificate

Derived terms

Related terms

habrolistý lísteček m. lístek m. listina listnatý m. listopad m.

listovat prolistovat trojlist m. zápočtový list m.

See also

• doklad
• dokument

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪst/

Noun

list f. and m. (plural listen, diminutive listje, diminutive plural listjes)

1. a cunning plan

Anagrams

• silt, stil

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Faroese

Noun

list f.

1. art

Declension

	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	list	listin	listir	listirnar
Accusative	list	listina	listir	listirnar
Dative	list	listini	listum	listunum
Genitive	listar	listarinnar	lista	listanna

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪst/

  Rhymes: -ɪst

  Homophones: lyst

Noun

list f. (genitive singular listar, plural listir)

1. art
   • Þetta er ekki list!

     That's not art!

Declension

declension of list

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	list	listin	listir	listirnar
accusative	list	listina	listir	listirnar
dative	list	listinni	listum	listunum
genitive	listar	listarinnar	lista	listanna

Derived terms

listasafn listasaga listaverk listasalur

listaskóli listsýning ljóðlist tónlist

Anagrams

• slit

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Noun

list m.

1. letter (a written message)

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *listiz. Cognate with Old Saxon list (Dutch list), Old High German list (German List), Old Norse list (Swedish list).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /list/

Noun

list f.

1. art; cunning, guile, craft

Declension

Declension of list

	Singular	Plural
nominative	list	liste
accusative	liste	liste
genitive	liste	lista
dative	liste	listum

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [lʲis̪t̪]

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Noun

list m.

1. letter (a written message)

Declension

declension of list

	singular	plural
nominative	list	listy
genitive	listu	listów
dative	listowi	listom
accusative	list	listy
instrumental	listem	listami
locative	liście	listach
vocative	liście	listy

Derived terms

• listonosz

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Noun

lȋst m. (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ст)

1. leaf
2. (computing) leaf
3. sole (fish)
4. letter (written message)
5. sheet of paper
6. calf (leg part)
7. a special purpose certificate, e.g. of birth, ownership etc.

Declension

declension of list

	singular	plural
nominative	lȋst	lȉstovi
genitive	lista	lȉstōvā
dative	listu	listovima
accusative	list	listove
vocative	listu	listovi
locative	listu	listovima
instrumental	listom	listovima

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Noun

list m.

1. letter; a written message
2. leaf; a part of a tree
3. sheet; a piece of paper

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *listъ (“leaf”).

Noun

list m. (plural listi)

1. piece of paper
2. leaf
3. sole
4. (anatomy) calf (leg part)

Related terms

• listje (leaves, collective noun)

 

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