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distinguish
English
Etymology
From Middle English distingwen, from Old French distinguer, from Latin distinguere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, set off, adorn, literally mark off”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stinguere. Compare extinguish.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?s-t?ng?gw?sh, IPA(key): /d?s?t???w??/
- Rhymes: -???w??
- Hyphenation: dis?tin?guish
Verb
distinguish (third-person singular simple present distinguishes, present participle distinguishing, simple past and past participle distinguished)
- To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
- Synonyms: differentiate, discriminate; see also Thesaurus:tell apart
- Antonym: confuse
- To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
- To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
- 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
- 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
- (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.
Usage notes
In sense “see a difference”, more casual than differentiate or the formal discriminate; more casual is “tell the difference”.
Derived terms
- distinguished
- distinguishable
- distinguishing
- distinguishness
- undistinguishing
Related terms
- distinct
- distinction
- extinguish
Translations
Further reading
- distinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distinguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
distinguish From the web:
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list
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: Liszt
Etymology 1
From Middle English l??st, l??ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English l?ste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-Germanic *l?st? (“band, strip; hem, selvage; border, edge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”). The word is cognate with Dutch lijst (“list”), Finnish lista (“(informal) list; batten”), Galician lista (“band, strip; list”), German Leiste (“ledge; (heraldry) bar”), Icelandic lista, listi, Italian lista (“list; strip”), Portuguese lista (“list”), Spanish lista (“list, roll; stripe”), Swedish lista (“list”).
Noun
list (plural lists)
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. [from 1600]
- (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3,[4]
- On pain of death, no person be so bold
- Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,
- Except the marshal and such officers
- Appointed to direct these fair designs.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3,[4]
- (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.
- (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- (obsolete) A stripe.
- (obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border.
Synonyms
- (enumeration or compilation of items): see Thesaurus:list
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)
- (transitive) To create or recite a list.
- (transitive) To place in listings.
- (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
- (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
Synonyms
- (create or recite a list): tabulate; see also Thesaurus:tick off
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English list, liste (“ability, cleverness, cunning, skill; adroitness, dexterity; strategem, trick; device, design, token”), from Old English list (“art, craft; cleverness, cunning, experience, skill”), from Proto-Germanic *listiz (“art, craft”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *ley?s- (“furrow, trace, track, trail”). The word is cognate with Dutch list (“artifice, guile, sleight; ruse, strategem”), German List (“cunning, guile; ploy, ruse, trick”), Low German list (“artifice, cunning; prudence, wisdom”), Icelandic list (“art”), Saterland Frisian list (“cunning, knowledge”), Scots list (“art, craft, skill; cunning”), Swedish list (“art; cunning, guile, wile; ruse, trick; stealth”), and possibly Spanish listo (“clever”). It is also related to learn, lore.
Noun
list (uncountable)
- (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:cunning
Etymology 3
Clipping of list(en).
Verb
list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle list)
- (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
- (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English listen, list, liste, leste, lesten (“to choose, desire, wish (to do something)”), from Old English lystan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijan?, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”). The word is cognate with Danish lyste (“to desire, feel like, want”), Dutch lusten (“to appreciate, like; to lust”), Faroese lysta (“to desire”), Old Norse lyste (“to desire; to lust”), Old High German lusten (modern German gelüsten and lüsten).
The noun sense is from the verb, or from Middle English list, liste, lest, leste (“desire, wish; craving, longing; enjoyment, joy, pleasure”), which is derived from Middle English listen, list (verb).
Verb
list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)
- (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to.
- (transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
Derived terms
- listful
- listless
Translations
Noun
list
- (obsolete) Desire, inclination.
Etymology 5
Origin uncertain; possibly from tilting on lists in jousts, or from Etymology 4 in the sense of inclining towards what one desires.
Noun
list (plural lists)
- (architecture) A tilt to a building.
- (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power. [from early 17th c.]
Translations
Verb
list (third-person singular simple present lists, present participle listing, simple past and past participle listed)
- (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side. [from early 17th c.]
- (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side. [from early 17th c.]
Translations
References
Further reading
- list (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- &lits, lits, silt, slit, tils
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *list? (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?st]
Noun
list m inan
- leaf (green and flat organ of vegetative plants)
- (archaic) letter (written message)
- Synonyms: dopis, psaní
- sheet (sheet of paper)
- newspaper
- certificate (document containing a certified statement)
Declension
Derived terms
See also
- doklad
- dokument
Further reading
- list in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- list in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Noun
list c (singular definite listen, not used in plural form)
- cunning, trick
Verb
list
- imperative of liste
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch list, from Old Dutch list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?st/
- Hyphenation: list
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
list f (plural listen, diminutive listje n)
- a cunning plan, a ruse, a trick
Derived terms
- listig
Descendants
- Afrikaans: lis
Anagrams
- silt, stil
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: lyst
Noun
list f (genitive singular listar, plural listir)
- art
Declension
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: lyst
Noun
list f (genitive singular listar, nominative plural listir)
- art
Declension
Derived terms
Anagrams
- slit
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *list? (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /list/, [l?ist]
Noun
list m (diminutive listk)
- leaf, foliage
- letter (a written message)
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse list
Noun
list m or f (definite singular lista or listen)
- cunning, craftiness, slyness
- skirting board
Etymology 2
Verb
list
- imperative of liste
References
- “list” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse list
Noun
list f (definite singular lista)
- cunning, craftiness, slyness
References
- “list” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *listiz. Cognate with Old Saxon list, Dutch list, Old High German list (German List), Old Norse list (Swedish list).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /list/
Noun
list f
- art; cunning, guile, craft
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: liste
- Scots: list
- English: list
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /list/
Noun
list f
- skill, proficiency
- art, craft
- cunning, slyness
- resort
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: list
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *list? (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?ist/
Noun
list m inan (diminutive li?cik)
- letter (a written message)
Declension
Derived terms
- listonosz
Noun
list
- genitive plural of lista
Further reading
- list in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *list? (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lî?st/
Noun
l?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- leaf
- Synonym: l?ska
- (computing) leaf
- sheet (of paper or other material manufactured in thin sheets)
- a special purpose certificate (any official document attesting a fact, e.g. of birth, ownership etc.)
- newsletter, newspaper
- (obsolete) letter (written message)
- calf (leg part)
- sole, flatfish (fish species)
- (card games) leaves
Declension
See also
Related terms
- liš?e
References
- “list” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Slovak
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *list? (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?list/
Noun
list m (genitive singular listu, lista, nominative plural listy, genitive plural listov, declension pattern of dub)
- letter; a written message
- leaf; a part of a tree
- sheet; a piece of paper
Declension
Derived terms
- listový
- lístok
- lístkový
- lísto?ek
- listisko
Further reading
- list in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *list? (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lí?st/
Noun
l?st m inan
- piece of paper
- leaf
- sole
- (anatomy) calf (leg part)
Inflection
Related terms
- lístje
Further reading
- “list”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish list, from Old Norse list, from Proto-Germanic *listiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys-, *ley?s-. Cognate with Icelandic list.
Noun
list c
- smartness, trick, cunning
Declension
Related terms
- listig
See also
- lust
Etymology 2
From Old Swedish lista, probably from Middle Low German lîste, from Proto-Germanic *l?st?. Cognate with Danish liste, Icelandic lista.
Noun
list c
- a strip (of wood or metal, a thin and long board), a border, a beading
- (graphical user interface) a bar
Declension
Derived terms
- golvlist
- kromlist
- statuslist
See also
- lista
References
- list in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- lits, slit, stil
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *list? (“leaf”).
Noun
list m
- letter
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