different between lease vs list
lease
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /li?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-Germanic *lesan? (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).
Cognate with Scots lease (“to arrange, gather”), Saterland Frisian leese (“to gather, read”), West Frisian lêze (“to read”), Dutch lezen (“to gather, read”), German lesen (“to gather, read”), Danish læse (“to collect, read”).
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased) (chiefly dialectal)
- (transitive) To gather.
- (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- (transitive) To glean.
- (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:lease.
Etymology 2
From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?asian (“to lie, tell lies”), from l?as (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
Derived terms
- leasing
Etymology 3
From Middle English lese, from Old English l?s (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *l?sw? (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y-, *l?yd- (“to leave, let”). Cognate with Old Saxon l?sa (“meadow”). See also leasow.
Alternative forms
- leaze
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- An open pasture or common.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
- Since as a child I used to lie
- Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
- Never, I own, expected I
- That life would all be fair.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
Etymology 4
From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?esan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijan? (“to release, loosen”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, solve, separate”). Cognate with Dutch lozen (“to drain, discharge”), German lösen (“to release”), Swedish lösa (“to solve”), Icelandic leysa (“to solve”).
Alternative forms
- leese (Scotland)
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.
Etymology 5
From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin lax? (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German l?zan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen). Cognate with Old English l?tan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”). More at let.
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
- (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
- (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.
Derived terms
- re-lease
Translations
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
- The period of such a contract.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
- And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- A leasehold.
Derived terms
- off-lease
Translations
Descendants
- ? Dutch: leasen
- ? English: leasing
- ? Spanish: leasing
- ? Finnish: leasing
- ? Polish: leasing
- ? Swedish: leasing
Related terms
- lessor, lessee
Etymology 6
From leash.
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
Anagrams
- Elsea, Seale, eales, easel, easle, seale
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li?s/, /lis/
- Hyphenation: lease
- Homophone: lies
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English lease.
Noun
lease f (plural leases, diminutive leaseje n)
- lease
- Synonym: pacht
Derived terms
- leaseauto
- leasewagen
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lease
- first-person singular present indicative of leasen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of leasen
- imperative of leasen
Middle English
Adjective
lease
- Alternative form of les
Noun
lease
- Alternative form of les
lease From the web:
- what lease means
- what lease can i afford
- what lease to own mean
- what lease car means
- what lease term is the most expensive
- what lease agreement
- what leasehold improvements can be capitalized
- what lease fees are negotiable
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
list From the web:
- what list describes the diet of an omnivore
- what list describes the diet of a carnivore
- what listen
- what list celebrity is harry styles
- what lists the powers of congress
- what list celebrity is j cole
- what list best characterizes the monocots
- what list does bruno make
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