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/lɪsts/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  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.
  4. (in the plural) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
  5. 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. A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
  7. To create or recite a list.
  8. To place in listings.
  9. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
  10. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
  11. To plough and plant with a lister.
  12. To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
  13. To listen.
  14. To listen to.
  15. To be pleasing to.
  16. To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
  17. A tilt to a building.
  18. A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
  19. To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
  20. To tilt to one side.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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