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list

Pronunciation: (list), [key]
—n.
1. a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record: a list of members.
2. See list price.
3. Computers.a series of records in a file.
4. a complete record of stocks handled by a stock exchange.
5. all of the books of a publisher that are available for sale.

—v.t.
1. to set down together in a list; make a list of: to list the membership of a club.
2. to enter in a list, directory, catalog, etc.: to list him among the members.
3. to place on a list of persons to be watched, excluded, restricted, etc.
4. Computers.to print or display in a list: Let's list the whole program and see where the bug is.
5. to register (a security) on a stock exchange so that it may be traded there.
6. Archaic.enlist.

—v.i.
1. to be offered for sale, as in a catalog, at a specified price: This radio lists at $49.95.
2. Archaic.enlist.

list

Pronunciation: (list), [key]
—n.
1. a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
2. a selvage.
3. selvages collectively.
4. a strip of cloth or other material.
5. a strip or band of any kind.
6. a stripe of color.
7. a division of the hair or beard.
8. one of the ridges or furrows of earth made by a lister.
9. a strip of material, as bark or sapwood, to be trimmed from a board.
10. fillet (def. 6a).

—adj.
made of selvages or strips of cloth.

—v.t.
1. to produce furrows and ridges on (land) with a lister.
2. to prepare (ground) for planting by making ridges and furrows.
3. to cut away a narrow strip of wood from the edge of (a stave, plank, etc.).
4. Obs.to apply a border or edge to.

list

Pronunciation: (list), [key]
—n.
a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.

—v.i.
(of a ship or boat) to incline to one side; careen: The ship listed to starboard.

—v.t.
to cause (a vessel) to incline to one side: The shifting of the cargo listed the ship to starboard.

list

Pronunciation: (list), [key] Archaic.

—v.t.
1. to please.
2. to like or desire.

—v.i.
to like; wish; choose.

list

Pronunciation: (list), [key] Archaic.

—v.i.
to listen.

—v.t.
to listen to.

List

Pronunciation: (list), [key]
—n.
Frie•drich Pronunciation: (frē'drik), [key] 1789–1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.

lissotrichous

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