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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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cant
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?nt, IPA(key): /kænt/
- Rhymes: -ænt
- Homophone: can't (US), Homophone: Kant (in anglicized pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Latin cant? probably via Old Northern French canter (“sing, tell”). Doublet of chant.
Noun
cant (usually uncountable, plural cants)
- (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Synonyms: argot, jargon, slang
- 1836, Three discourses preached before the Congregational Society in Watertown, page 65
- (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- Synonyms: argot, jargon, slang
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- (uncountable, derogatory) Empty, hypocritical talk.
- 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch 46:
- ... he knew very well that if they thought him clever they were being taken in, but it pleased him to have been able to take them in, and he tried to do so still further; he was therefore a good deal on the look-out for cants that he could catch and apply in season, and might have done himself some mischief thus if he had not been ready to throw over any cant as soon as he had come across another more nearly to his fancy ...
- 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch 46:
- (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
Related terms
Translations
Verb
cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted)
- (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
- (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
See also
- jargon
- sociolect
Etymology 2
From Middle English cant (“edge, brink”), from Middle Dutch cant (“point, side, edge”) (Modern Dutch kant (“side, edge”)), ultimately of Celtic or Latin origin. Related to Medieval Latin cantus (“corner, side”), from Latin canthus.
Noun
cant (plural cants)
- (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A corner (of a building).
- Synonym: corner
- An outer or external angle.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- Synonyms: bevel, slope, tilt
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- 1830, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, volume 3, page 621
- It is not only of great service in keeping the boat in her due position on the sea, but also in creating a tendency immediately to recover from any sudden cant, or lurch, from a heavy wave; and it is besides beneficial in diminishing the violence of beating against the sides of the vessel which she may go to relieve.
- 1830, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, volume 3, page 621
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
Derived terms
- cantrail
Related terms
- cantilever
Translations
Verb
cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted)
- (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
- to cant a cask; to cant a ship
- (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football
- (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
- (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
Translations
Etymology 3
Unknown, but compare Provençal cantel (“corner, piece”) or Old Northern French cantel (“piece broken off”). The verb is attested from the 15th century, and the noun from the 16th.
Verb
cant (third-person singular simple present cants, present participle canting, simple past and past participle canted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To divide or parcel out.
Noun
cant (plural cants)
- (regional, forestry) A parcel, a division.
Etymology 4
From Middle English cant, kaunt, presumably from Middle Low German *kant. Compare Dutch kant (“neat, clever”). Attested from the 13th or 14th century.
Alternative forms
- kant
Adjective
cant (not comparable)
- (Britain, dialect) Lively, lusty.
References
Further reading
- Cant (language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- NCTA, T-Can
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan cant, from Latin cantus.
Noun
cant m (plural cants)
- song
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?kan/
Synonyms
- cançó
Related terms
- cantar
Italian
Noun
cant m (invariable)
- Apocopic form of canto
Middle English
Etymology
Possibly from Middle Low German *kant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kant/
Adjective
cant
- (Scotland, Northern England) bold, lively, cant
- c. 1340, Cursor Mundi, Cotton Vespasian A iii, lines 8943-46:
- Iuus þat war sa cant and kene, / Quen þai had þis meracles sene, / þai drou it þen and mad a brig / Ouer a litel burn to lig
- Jews who were so bold and ready, when they had seen this miracle, pulled it out and made a bridge over a little stream to lie
- Iuus þat war sa cant and kene, / Quen þai had þis meracles sene, / þai drou it þen and mad a brig / Ouer a litel burn to lig
- c. 1340, Cursor Mundi, Cotton Vespasian A iii, lines 8943-46:
Descendants
- English: cant (dialectal)
- Scots: cant
Romanian
Etymology
From German Kante.
Noun
cant n (plural canturi)
- edge
Declension
Scots
Alternative forms
- kant
Etymology
From Middle English cant (“bold, lively”)
Adjective
cant
- (Middle Scots) lively
- 1513, Gavin Douglas (translator), Virgil (author), Aeneid:
- The cadgyar callis furth his capill with crakkis wail cant
- 1513, Gavin Douglas (translator), Virgil (author), Aeneid:
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kant/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *kant, from Proto-Celtic *kantom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.
Numeral
cant (ordinal canfed)
- one hundred
Usage notes
- Preceding a noun, cant takes the form can.
- Cardinals following cant employ a (“and”) as a connecting word, which stands in contrast to ordinals after canfed, which use wedi'r (“past the, after the”), e.g. cant ac un (“one hundred and one”) but cyntaf wedi'r cant (“hundred-and-first”).
Derived terms
- hanner cant (“fifty”)
- cant a hanner (“one hundred and fifty”)
- dau gant (“two hundred”)
- tri chant (“three hundred”)
- pum cant (“five hundred”)
Noun
cant m (plural cannoedd)
- hundred
- century
Etymology 2
Middle Welsh, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”). Related to Breton kant (“circle”), Old Irish cétad (“round seat”).
Noun
cant m (plural cantau)
- hoop
- rim
Mutation
References
- Definition from the BBC
- Hoops, Johannes (1973): Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, Volume 16, p. 445
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