different between alist vs arist

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English arist, aristh, ærist, from Old English ?rist (“arising, rising up, resurrection, awakening”), from Proto-Germanic *uzristiz (“a rising up”), from Proto-Germanic *uzr?san? (“to rise up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“up, out”) + Proto-Germanic *r?san? (“to rise”), equivalent to arise +? -t. Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????????? (urrists, “a rising up”). More at arise.

Noun

arist (plural arists)

1. (obsolete) A rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the horizon.

Related terms

• sunrist

Anagrams

• ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, Stair, airts, astir, sitar, stair, stria, tarsi, tiars, tisar

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?rist/

Adjective

?rist

1. Alternative form of ?rest

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN