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12 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, v. t. To inclose for combat; as to list a field. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, v. i. [See {Listen}.] To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.] Stand close and list to him --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, v. t. To listen or hearken to Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, v. i. [OE. listen, lusten, AS lystan from lust pleasure. See {Lust}.] 1. To desire or choose to please. The wind bloweth where it listeth --John iii. 8. Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth --Hooker. Let other men think of your devices as they list. --Whitgift. 2. (Naut.) To lean; to incline; as the ship lists to port. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, n. 1. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. (Naut.) An inclination to one side as the ship has a list to starboard. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, n. [AS. l[=i]st a list of cloth; akin to D. lijst, G. leiste, OHG. l[=i]sta, Icel. lista, listi, Sw list, Dan. liste. In sense 5 from F. liste, of German origin, and thus ultimately the same word.] 1. A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it hence a strip of cloth; a fillet. ``Gartered with a red and blue list. '' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\ (l[i^]st), n. [F. lice, LL liciae pl., from L. licium thread, girdle.] A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. --Chaucer. In measured lists to toss the weighty lance. --Pope. {To enter the lists}, to accept a challenge, or engage in contest. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Listed}; p. pr & vb n. {Listing}.] [From list a roll.] 1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on as to list a door; to stripe as if with list. The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom. --Tennyson. 3. To enroll; to place or register in a list. Listed among the upper serving men. --Milton. 4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist. I will list you for my soldier. --Sir W. Scott. 5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of as to list a board. {To list a stock} (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of stocks called at the meeting of the board. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, v. i. To engage in public service by enrolling one's name to enlist. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: List \List\, v. t. 1. To plow and plant with a lister. 2. In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. [Southern U. S.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: list n 1: a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) [syn: {listing}] 2: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" [syn: {tilt}, {inclination}, {lean}, {leaning}] v 1: give or make a list of name individually; give the names of 2: include in a list 3: give the names of "Name the states west of the Mississippi!" [syn: {name}] 4: enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians" [syn: {number}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: list A data structure holding many values, possibly of different types, which is usually accessed sequentially, working from the head to the end of the tail - an "ordered list". This contrasts with a (one-dimensional) {array}, any element of which can be accessed equally quickly. Lists are often stored using a cell and pointer arrangement where each value is stored in a cell along with an associated pointer to the next cell. A special pointer, e.g. zero, marks the end of the list. This is known as a singlely "linked list". A doublely linked list has pointers from each cell to both next and previous cells. An unordered list is a {set}. (1998-11-12)
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