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A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
* Shakespeare:
Material used for cloth selvage.
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=(Arthur Conan Doyle), title=The Naval Treaty, page=681, publisher=Norton 2005,
passage=The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers.}}
(in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by (Samuel Butler), part 1, :
* (Alexander Pope)
* {{quote-book, year=1819, author=(Walter Scott), title=(Ivanhoe),
passage=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.}}
A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the enumeration or compilation itself.
* Francis Bacon:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing, programming) A 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.
(obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A stripe.
(architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
(carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
(ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
(tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
(tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
To create or recite a list.
To place in listings.
(obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
(obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
* Walter Scott, The Waverly Novels :
To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
* Alfred Tennyson:
(carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
(archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
* 1877 , James Clarke & Co, The literary world :
* 1893 , Solomon Caesar, Original notes on the Book of Proverbs :
* 1897 , Lilian Winser, Lays and legends of the Weald of Kent :
* 1991 , Alexander L. Ringer, The Early romantic era :
* 1992 , University of Reading. Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, Reading medieval studies :
* 2000 , Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, Peter Schreiner, Polypleuros nous :
* 2008 , Jon B. Sherman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The magician in medieval German literature :
(poetic) To listen.
* 1607 , iv 3 :
(poetic) To listen to.
* Shakespeare:
(nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
(architecture) A tilt to a building.
(nautical) To tilt to one side.
(nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
(archaic) To be pleasing to.
(archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. VIII, ''Unworking Aristocracy
* 1959 , , "What is Political Philosophy?", in What is Political Philosophy? , page 51:
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 413:
(obsolete) Inclination; desire.
(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
(countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer
(countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.
Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No'' or '' (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
Quantity.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= * Francis Bacon
A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
(countable, informal) A telephone number.
* 2001 , E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project, Xulon Press, page 86:
* 2007 , Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page 111:
(grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
(now, rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
* 1635 , (John Donne), The Triple Foole :
(countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
(countable, informal) A person
* 1968 , Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel, Little, Brown, page 40:
* 1988 , Erica Jong, Serenissima, Dell, page 214:
* 2005 , Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, page 207:
(countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
* 2007 , Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems..., Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 134:
* 2007 , Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page 46:
(slang, chiefly, US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
* 2009 , (Thomas Pynchon), Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, page 12:
(dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
To total or count; to amount to.
(numb)
In transitive terms the difference between list and number
is that list is to enclose (a field, etc.) for combat while number is to label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).As nouns the difference between list and number
is that list is a strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth while number is an abstract entity used to describe quantity.As verbs the difference between list and number
is that list is to create or recite a list while number is to label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).As an adjective number is
comparative of numb.list
English
(wikipedia list)Etymology 1
From (etyl), mostly from (etyl) gave rise to the sense of "catalogue of names" by circa 1600; it was influenced by (etyl) liste'' or (etyl) ''lista (both meaning "border, band; strip of paper"), which are themselves from the Germanic word.Noun
(en noun)- gartered with a red and blue list
- With truncheon tipp'd with iron head, / The warrior to the lists he led.
- In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.
- He was the ablest emperor of all the list .
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.
- The very list , the very utmost bound, / Of all our fortunes.
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* association list * blacklist * bucket list * bullet list * checklist * clout list * definition list * grocery list * hit list * laundry list * listicle * list price * mailing list * material list * punch list * set list * short list * stop list * to-do list * waiting list * whitelist * wine list * wish listVerb
(en verb)- "I will list you for my soldier, then," said the Countess.
- to list a door
- The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.
- to list a board
Derived terms
* delist * interlistEtymology 2
From (etyl) liste, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l), (l).Noun
(-)- 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.
- "[...] 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."
- For when the guileful monster smiled Snakes left their holes and hissed, — And stroking soft his silken beard Raised creatures full of list .
- The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed by List ... (List = cunning); [...].
- The latter wins his fight not by list but through straightforward knightly prowess, [...]
- It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal, Manuel, as depicted by Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than by list ."
- One man can accomplish with list (magic), that which a thousand could not accomplish, regardless of how strong they were.
Etymology 3
From (listen).Verb
- Peace, what noise? / List', ' list ! / Hark! / Music i' the air.
- Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, / If with too credent ear you list his songs.
Etymology 4
Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts.[http://www.drbilllong.com/CurrentEventsV/ListWII.html]Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- the ship listed to port
- the steady wind listed the ship
Etymology 5
(etyl) lystan, from (etyl) ).Verb
(en verb)- If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy / likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list .
- 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!
- License consists in doing what one lists ; liberty consists in doing in the right manner the good only;
- The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.
Derived terms
* listlessNoun
Anagrams
* * *number
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.
- “[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number ?”
- When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number'?” Well, I don’t give my ' number to guys I don’t know.
- Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
- I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number ."
- "Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number , "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"
- He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.
- The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.
- "I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."
- Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number , put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips
- the latest number of a magazine
Synonyms
* (mathematical number) scalarHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* abundant number * algebraic number * binary number * cardinal number * complex number * decimal number * deficient number * do a number on * have someone's number * hexadecimal number * house number * hyperreal number * hypercomplex number * imaginary number * irrational number * meandric number * natural number * nice round number * number-cruncher * number-crunching * number field * number line * number one * number two * number theory * numberless * ordinal number * opposite number * perfect number * phone number * prime number * rational number * real number * round number * serial number * surreal number * take a number * telephone number * transcendental number * transfinite number * whole number * without number * (number)See also
* (grammatical numbers) singular,? dual,? trial,? quadral,? paucal,? pluralVerb
(en verb)- Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
- I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.