Listeth vs Lasteth - What's the difference?
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(list)
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.
(archaic) (last)
Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
* , chapter=5
, title= Most recent, latest, last so far.
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
Being the only one remaining of its class.
Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
* R. Hall
Lowest in rank or degree.
The (one) immediately before the present.
(of a, day of the week) Closest to seven days (one week) ago.
Most recently.
* Shakespeare
(sequence) after everything else; finally
* Dryden
To perform, carry out.
(label) To endure, continue over time.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
(label) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
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a tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes
* 2006, Newman, Cathy, Every Shoe Tells a Story , National Geographic (September, 2006), 83,
To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
(obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
(obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 114:
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, page 169,
(obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
* 1942 (1601) , T D Mutch,
A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
As verbs the difference between listeth and lasteth
is that listeth is (list) while lasteth is (archaic) (last).listeth
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * *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
* * *lasteth
English
Verb
(head)last
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), syncopated variant of (m), from (etyl) latost, (m), , whence English (l).Adjective
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year.}}
- He is the last person to be accused of theft.
- Contending for principles of the last importance.
- the last prize
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
* (final) at the end, caboose, final, tail end, terminal, ultimate * (most recent) latest, most recentDerived terms
* last word * nice guys finish lastDeterminer
(en determiner)- Last night the moon was full.
- We went there last year.
- Last Tuesday was Hallowe'en.
- Last time we talked about this was in January.
- It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago.
Usage notes
* (both senses) This cannot be used in past or future tense to refer to a time immediately before the subject matter. For example, one does not say or the like.Adverb
(-)- When we last met, he was based in Toronto.
- How long is't now since last yourself and I / Were in a mask?
- I'll go last .
- last but not least
- Pleased with his idol, he commends, admires, / Adores; and, last , the thing adored desires.
Synonyms
* finally * lastlyEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* continue * endure * surviveAntonyms
* disintegrate * dissipate * fall apart * wear outEtymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia last) (en noun)- How is an in-your-face black leather thigh-high lace-up boot with a four-inch spike heel like a man's black calf lace-up oxford? They are both made on a last , the wood or plastic foot-shaped form that leather is stretched over and shaped to make a shoe.
Derived terms
*Verb
(en verb)- to last a boot
Etymology 4
From (etyl) last, from (etyl) , (etyl) last, (etyl) Last, (etyl) last, (etyl) lest.Noun
(en noun)- Now we so quietly followed our businesse, that in three moneths wee made three or foure Last of Tarre, Pitch, and Sope ashes [...].
- The last of wool is twelve sacks.
The First Discovery of Australia, page 14,
- The tonnage of the of Harmensz's fleet is given as 25 and 30 lasten .