Listname

• 1

  A surname.

listnoun詞源 1/lɪst/

• 1

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

  • 1. Gent[leman]. Well: there went but a paire of ſheeres betweene vs. / Luc[io]. I grant: as there may betweene the Liſts, and the Veluet. Thou art the Liſt. / 1. Gent. And thou the Veluet. Thou art good Veluet; thou'rt a three pild-piece I warrant thee: I had as liefe be a Lyſt of an Engliſh Kerſey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French Veluet. Do I ſpeake feelingly now?
  • “Listen! I see it all — down, down even to the stays! Such stays! Six-eight a pair, Polly, with red flannel — or list is it? — that they put into the tops of those fearful things. I can draw you a picture of them.”
• 2

  Material used for cloth selvage.

  • Previous to the offering up of prayer, however, the persons chosen for this office [of praying for the people] had divested themselves of their boots and put on list slippers, their hands being washed by "the descendants of Levi" at a basin near the Holy of Holies.
  • "How is it, then, that the woman who came into the room about nine left to traces with her muddy boots?" / "I am glad you raise the point. It occurred to me at the time. The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers."
• 3

  A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

  • Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was with Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus. […] And yet he [Septimus Severus] was the Ableſt Emperour, almoſt, of all the Liſt.
  • "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list. "Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?"
• 4

  historicalThe barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.

  • On pain of death, no person be so bold Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists, Except the marshal and such officers Appointed to direct these fair designs.
  • With Truncheon tip'd with Iron head, / The Warrior to the Lists [he] led; […]
• 5

  historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.

  • The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
• 6

  computingengineeringmathematicsA codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.

  • Lisp is an applicative language. This means that it is structured around applying functions (operations) to a linked list of arguments that accompany those functions. […] A function call or function definition is only coded in the syntax of a list, which can be of an indefinite length. Thus, the list is the only data structure for a Lisp program.
• 7

  architectureA little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

  • STRIÆ, in ancient architecture, the liſts, fillets or rays which ſeparate the ſtriges or flutings of columns.
  • A volute is a kind of spiral scroll, used in the Ionic and Composite capitals, of which it makes the principal characteristic and ornament. […] There are several diversities practised in the volute. In some, the list or edge, throughout all the circumvolutions, is in the same line or plane. […] [I]n others, the canal or one circumvolution is detached from the list of another by a vacuity or aperture.
• 8

  businesscarpentryconstructionA narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.

listverb詞源 1/lɪst/

• 1

  To create or recite a list.

• 2

  To place in listings.

  • As the export market for tropical hardwoods expanded, timber from tropical rain forests very rapidly became the dominant or major forest product, dominant to such an extent that trade figures often do not even list the minor forest products exported, or their value.
• 3

  To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.

• 4

  To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.

  • to list a door
  • He raised his eyes and saw / The tree that shone white-listed thro' the gloom.
• 5

  agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo plough and plant with a lister.

• 6

  agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.

• 7

  businesscarpentryconstructionTo cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

  • to list a board
• 8

  governmentmilitarypoliticsTo enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

listnoun詞源 2/lɪst/

• 1

  archaicArt; craft; cunning; skill.

  • In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.
  • Sophos, fab[le] 40. "The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within."

listverb詞源 3/lɪst/

• 1

  To listen.

  • 2 [Soldier] Peace, what noiſe? / 1 [Soldier] Liſt liſt. / 2 Hearke. / 1 Music i' th' Ayre.
  • We list to the trumpings that herald the storm, / To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
• 2

  To listen to.

  • Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.

listverb詞源 4/lɪst/

• 1

  archaicTo desire, like, or wish (to do something).

  • who liſt to lyue yn quyetnes by me lett hym beware For I by highe dyſdayne ame made withoute redreſſe and vnkyndenes Alas hathe ſlayne my poore trew hart all comfortles
  • If thou beeſt a man, ſhew thy ſelfe in thy likeneſs. If thou beeſt a diuell, take't as thou liſt.
• 2

  archaicTo be pleasing to.

  • Might then I depart, and dwell as listeth me, out of all the world?

listnoun詞源 4/lɪst/

• 1

  obsoleteDesire, inclination.

  • I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.

listnoun詞源 5/lɪst/

• 1

  architectureA tilt to a building.

• 2

  nauticaltransportA careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.

listverb詞源 5/lɪst/

• 1

  nauticaltransportTo cause (something) to tilt to one side.

  • The steady wind listed the ship.
• 2

  nauticaltransportTo tilt to one side.

  • The ship listed to port.
  • Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly.