list1
/lɪst
/- He used the names on his ID list to transfer thousands of pounds from their credit card accounts into the fraudulent accounts.
- The list of names is under constant review in each area, by a group made up of representatives from participating agencies.
- Filing is going to join the growing list of things I no longer do.
Synonyms
- A message is then sent to the filter object specifying an input list of data elements to be filtered.
- You can block a process from running or allow the computer to run only a list of processes you select.
- Below I've listed the reasons why I think the British public has been prepared on this occasion to dig so deeply.
- In each of them the voters will cast a ballot for the party they prefer and will list the four candidates they have chosen.
- As well, there is a section listing a variety of therapies and practitioners who specialize in back problems.
- Under Employment companies are listed alphabetically by name within the United States, then in other countries.
- Species available when developing the key are listed alphabetically in the Appendix.
- Within genera, species are listed chronologically in the order they were named.
- The stock must be listed at a reasonably good price to make any return on this.
- The purchase price is listed at two pounds and two shillings.
- First, as is typical for university press books, it is priced much higher than commercial press books, listing at $40 + for a relatively short book.
- All three churches are listed as buildings of historic or architectural interest.
- Although the building is not listed, the pub is in the Fulford Road conservation area, which means special consideration needs to be given before permission is granted to change its appearance.
Phrases
enter the lists
Derivatives
listable
- With youngsters soon to move into a modern building after the half-term break, councillors decided the Victorian building school should be retained for the city - despite officers' views that it was not ‘of listable quality’.
- If we constrain ourselves to thinking that any external object is limited to some set of listable properties, then we miss out on William Blakes’ ‘eternity in a grain of sand.’
- Adding them to those in the list indicates a possibility of a further 29 listable entities should the state either partially or totally privatize the mentioned parastatals.
Origin
Middle English (in sense 3 of the noun): from Old English liste 'border', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijst and German Leiste. sense 2 of the noun is late Middle English, from Old French lisse; sense 1 of the noun is late 16th century, from French liste, of Germanic origin.
In the sense ‘a number of connected items or names’, list came from French in the late 16th century. The origin of the French word appears to be the root of another list that already existed in English, with the meaning ‘a border, edge, or strip’—presumably from the strip of paper on which a list would have been written. Its main use now is for the selvedge or sewn edge of a piece of fabric. The origins of to enter the lists ‘to issue or accept a challenge’ have nothing to do with signing up, but go back to the days of knights and jousting tournaments. These lists were the enclosed area where jousts took place or rather the barriers surrounding this area—but the meaning was extended to refer to the yard itself. If you chose to enter the lists you were formally agreeing to take part in combat. There was another list, now obsolete, meaning ‘desire, wish’ which still survives in listless (Middle English) literally ‘without desire’.
Rhymes
list2
/lɪst/- In a second life-saving air-sea rescue, 16 Russian seamen were plucked from a 6000 ton cargo ship listing heavily in a force nine gale off the Devon coast yesterday.
- Was it her imagination, or was the ship listing to one side?
- The ship was listing to one side in its resting place, at the end of the long, deep furrow it had plowed up in the valley.
Synonyms
- The hull has broken amidships and the wreck has a slight list to port either side of the break.
- Due to the list, the bulkhead door of the engine-room would not close properly and the compartment was slowly but steadily flooding.
Origin
Early 17th century: of unknown origin.
list3
/lɪst/Origin
Old English lystan (verb), of Germanic origin, from a base meaning 'pleasure'.