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agist

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman agister (to pasture for a fee).

Verb

agist (third-person singular simple present agists, present participle agisting, simple past and past participle agisted)

  1. (transitive) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
  2. (transitive) To charge lands etc. with any public burden.

Related terms

  • agister

See also

  • ageist

Anagrams

  • gaits, taigs

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alist

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of association list.

Alternative forms

  • a-list

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?e?.l?st/

Noun

alist (plural alists)

  1. (programming) association list in LISP.
    • J. S. Moore and Q. Zhang, Proof Pearl: Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm Verified with ACL2, in Joe Hurd and Tom F. Melham (ed.), Theorem proving in higher order logics: 18th international conference, 2005, p. 375:
      We use alists extensively in this work. A directed graph is an alist associating vertices with edge lists.

Related terms

  • car
  • cdr
  • LISP
  • list

Anagrams

  • Itals, Talsi, itals, laits, litas, silat, stail, tails

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