list
    n 1: a database containing an ordered array of items (names or
         topics) [syn: list, listing]
    2: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from
       the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship
       developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy
       inclination to the right" [syn: tilt, list,
       inclination, lean, leaning]
    v 1: give or make a list of; name individually; give the names
         of; "List the states west of the Mississippi" [syn: list,
         name]
    2: include in a list; "Am I listed in your register?"
    3: cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
       [syn: list, lean]
    4: tilt to one side; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made
       the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard" [syn:
       list, heel]
    5: enumerate; "We must number the names of the great
       mathematicians" [syn: number, list]

List \List\, v. t.
   To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
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List \List\, v. i. [See Listen.]
   To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.]
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         Stand close, and list to him.            --Shak.
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List \List\, v. t.
   To listen or hearken to.
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         Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain,
         If with too credent ear you list his songs. --Shak.
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List \List\, v. i. [OE. listen, lusten, AS. lystan, from lust
   pleasure. See Lust.]
   1. To desire or choose; to please.
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            The wind bloweth where it listeth.    --John iii. 8.
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            Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth.
                                                  --Hooker.
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            Let other men think of your devices as they list.
                                                  --Whitgift.
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   2. (Naut.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.
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List \List\ (l[i^]st), n. [F. lice, LL. liciae, pl., from L.
   licium thread, girdle.]
   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. --Chaucer.
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         In measured lists to toss the weighty lance. --Pope.
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   To enter the lists, to accept a challenge, or engage in
      contest.
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List \List\ (l[i^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Listed; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Listing.] [From list a roll.]
   1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show
      of colors, or form a border. --Sir H. Wotton.
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   2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list
      on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
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            The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   3. To enroll; to place or register in a list.
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            Listed among the upper serving men.   --Milton.
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   4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
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            I will list you for my soldier.       --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from
      the edge of; as, to list a board.
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   To list a stock (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of
      stocks called at the meeting of the board.
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List \List\, n.
   1. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   2. (Naut.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a
      list to starboard.
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List \List\, n. [AS. l[imac]st a list of cloth; akin to D.
   lijst, G. leiste, OHG. l[imac]sta, Icel. lista, listi, Sw.
   list, Dan. liste. In sense 5 from F. liste, of German origin,
   and thus ultimately the same word.]
   1. 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. "Gartered with a red
      and blue list." --Shak.
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   2. A limit or boundary; a border.
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            The very list, the very utmost bound,
            Of all our fortunes.                  --Shak.
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   3. The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   4. A stripe. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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   5. 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.
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            He was the ablest emperor of all the list. --Bacon.
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   6. (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also
      listel.
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   7. (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the
      edge of a plank or board.
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   8. (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns
      are grasped by a workman.
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   9. (Tin-plate Manuf.)
      (a) The first thin coat of tin.
      (b) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate
          after it is coated.
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   Civil list (Great Britain & U.S.), the civil officers of
      government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc.
      Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for
      the support of the civil officers. More recently, the
      civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the
      reigning monarch's household.

   Free list.
      (a) A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty.
      (b) A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a
          theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a
          periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.

   Syn: Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule.

   Usage: List, Roll, Catalogue, Register, Inventory,
          Schedule. A list is properly a simple series of
          names, etc., in a brief form, such as might naturally
          be entered in a narrow strip of paper. A roll was
          originally a list containing the names of persons
          belonging to a public body (as Parliament, etc.),
          which was rolled up and laid aside among its archives.
          A catalogue is a list of persons or things arranged in
          order, and usually containing some description of the
          same, more or less extended. A register is designed
          for record or preservation. An inventory is a list of
          articles, found on hand in a store of goods, or in the
          estate of a deceased person, or under similar
          circumstances. A schedule is a formal list or
          inventory prepared for legal or business purposes.
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List \List\, v. i.
   To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to
   enlist.
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List \List\ (l[i^]st), v. t.
   1. To plow and plant with a lister.
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   2. In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by
      making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. [Southern
      U. S.]
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list
lists

    A data structure holding many values, possibly of
   different types, which is usually accessed sequentially,
   working from the head to the end of the tail - an "ordered
   list".  This contrasts with a (one-dimensional) array, any
   element of which can be accessed equally quickly.

   Lists are often stored using a cell and pointer arrangement
   where each value is stored in a cell along with an associated
   pointer to the next cell.  A special pointer, e.g. zero, marks
   the end of the list.  This is known as a (singly) "linked
   list".  A doubly linked list has pointers from each cell to
   both next and previous cells.

   An unordered list is a set.

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LIST. A table of cases arranged for trial or argument; as, the trial list, 
the argument list. See 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3031.