list

  1. Noun.  A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  2. Noun.  Material used for cloth selvage.
  3. Noun.  (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
  4. Noun.  A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items.
  5. Noun.  (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.
  6. Verb.  To create or recite a list.
  7. Verb.  To place in listings.
  8. Verb.  To listen.
  9. Noun.  (nautical) a tilting or careening manoeuvre, which causes the ship to roll. Usually used to describe tilting not under a ship's own power.
  10. Noun.  (architecture) a tilt to a building.
  11. Verb.  (nautical) to carry out such a manoeuvre.
  12. Verb.  (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  13. Verb.  (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).

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