List vs String - 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.
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(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
* Prior
(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
* Gibbon
(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
(countable) A series of items or events.
(countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
(music, countable) A stringed instrument.
(music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)
(countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics
(slang) cannabis or marijuana
A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
The points made in a game of billiards.
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
* Francis Bacon
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
* Bible, Mark vii. 35
(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(architecture) A stringcourse.
To put (items) on a string.
To put strings on (something).
As nouns the difference between list and string
is that list is cunning; craft while string is thong (as undergarment or swimwear).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
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string
English
Noun
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .
- a violin string
- a bowstring
- a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages
- a string of islands
- The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
- a string of successes
- no strings attached
- (Milton)
- Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
- The string of his tongue was loosed.
- the strings of beans
- (Ure)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* score string * second stringSynonyms
* (long, thin structure): cord, rope, line * (this structure as a substance): cord, rope, twine * (anything long and thin): * (cohesive substance in the form of a string): * (series of items or events): sequence, series * (sequence of characters in computing): * (stringed instruments): string section the strings, or the string section * (conditions): conditions, provisosDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
- You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
- It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.