Meaning

16 senses
  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

    кро́мкаkrómka, кайма́kajmá, каёмкаkajómka

  2. Material used for cloth selvage.

  3. A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

    Liste

    спи́сокspísok, пе́реченьpérečenʹ

    спи́сокspýsok, пере́лікperélik

  4. (historical, in the plural)The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.

  5. (historical, in the plural)The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.

  6. 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.

    Liste

    спи́сокspísok

  7. A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

  8. A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.

  9. A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

  10. The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

  11. A tilt to a building.

  12. A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.

    Schlagseite, Krängung

    кренkren

More definitions
  • a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
  • the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical

Examples

1554 sentences
  1. May I see the wine list?

    Можна побачити винну карту? — deniko

    deKann ich bitte die Weinkarte haben? — Zaghawa

  2. Where did you get this list?

    Де ти взяв цей перелік? — deniko

    ruГде вы достали этот список? — marafon

  3. Tom is already on the list.

    Том вже в списку. — deniko

    ruТом уже в списке. — odexed

  4. I need everything on this list.

    Мені потрібно все, що є в цьому списку. — deniko

  5. My name isn't on the list.

    Мого імені немає в списку. — deniko

    ruВ списке нет моего имени. — Karok

    deMein Name steht nicht auf der Liste. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
enumeration or compilation of items:
Русский
By meaning 3
strip of fabric:
enumeration or compilation of items:
nautical: tilting or careening to one side:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
enumeration or compilation of items:
nautical: tilting or careening to one side:

Origin

From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, s

From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”).

From Middle English list, liste (“ability, cleverness, cunning, skill; adroitness, dexterity; strategem, trick; device, design, token”), from Old English list (“art, craft; cleverness, cunning, experience, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *listi, from Proto-Germanic *listiz (“art, craft”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *leyǝs- (“furrow, trace, track, trail”).

From Middle English listen, list, liste, leste, lesten (“to choose, desire, wish (to do something)”), from Old English lystan, from Proto-West Germanic *lustijan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijaną, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”).

Uncertain; possibly from tilting on lists in jousts, or from Etymology 4 in the sense of inclining towards what one desires.

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Forms

plural: lists
Singularlist
Plurallists

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics):listing
  • the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical:tiltinclinationleanleaning

Word family

141 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • on the list
  • a list of
  • list of things
  • made a list
  • here's a list
  • off the list
  • on my list
  • on this list
  • a long list
  • long list of
  • list of people
  • is a list

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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