List vs Shift - What's the difference?
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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.
To change, swap.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To change position.
(obsolete) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
*, II.ii.2:
* Shakespeare
To change gears (in a car).
(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
(computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
(computing) To remove the first value from an array.
To dispose of.
To hurry.
(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
* L'Estrange
To practice indirect or evasive methods.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip
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* 1919 ,
a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time
an act of shifting; a slight movement or change
* Sir H. Wotton
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}
(US) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle
(computing) a bit shift
(baseball) The infield shift.
The act of sexual petting.
(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail
* 1596 , Shakespeare, History of King John
(archaic) a trick, an artifice
* 1593 , Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
* Macaulay
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
As nouns the difference between list and shift
is that list is cunning; craft while shift is (computing) a modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing shift and the other button simultaneously).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
* * *shift
English
(wikipedia shift)Verb
(en verb)The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}}
- 'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].
- As it were to ride day and night; andnot to have patience to shift me.
- Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.
- All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift , than to resolve by their distinctions.
Noun
(en noun)- Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
- No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.
- Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
- We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
- My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
- There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
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- Does it come with a stick-shift ?
- If you press shift -P, the preview display will change.
- Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
- If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
- I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
- As good to die and go, as die and stay.
- And if the boy have not a woman's gift
- To rain a shower of commanded tears,
- An onion will do well for such a shift
- Reduced to pitiable shifts .
- I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
- Little souls on little shifts rely.