different between list vs number

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)

1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
2. Material used for cloth selvage.
3. 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]
5. (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.
6. (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.
7. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
8. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
9. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
10. (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.
11. (obsolete) A stripe.
12. (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)

1. (transitive) To create or recite a list.
2. (transitive) To place in listings.
3. (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
4. (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
5. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
6. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
7. (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

8. (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
10. (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)

1. (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)

1. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
2. (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)

1. (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to.
2. (transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).

Derived terms

• listful
• listless

Translations

Noun

list

1. (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)

1. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
2. (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)

1. (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side. [from early 17th c.]

2. (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

1. leaf (green and flat organ of vegetative plants)
2. (archaic) letter (written message)

   Synonyms: dopis, psaní

3. sheet (sheet of paper)
4. newspaper

5. 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)

1. cunning, trick

Verb

list

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. art

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: lyst

Noun

list f (genitive singular listar, nominative plural listir)

1. 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)

1. leaf, foliage
2. letter (a written message)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse list

Noun

list m or f (definite singular lista or listen)

1. cunning, craftiness, slyness
2. skirting board

Etymology 2

Verb

list

1. imperative of liste

References

• “list” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse list

Noun

list f (definite singular lista)

1. 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

1. 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

1. skill, proficiency
2. art, craft
3. cunning, slyness
4. resort

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: list

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *list? (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ist/

Noun

list m inan (diminutive li?cik)

1. letter (a written message)

Declension

Derived terms

• listonosz

Noun

list

1. 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 ?????)

1. leaf

   Synonym: l?ska

2. (computing) leaf
3. sheet (of paper or other material manufactured in thin sheets)
4. a special purpose certificate (any official document attesting a fact, e.g. of birth, ownership etc.)
5. newsletter, newspaper
6. (obsolete) letter (written message)
7. calf (leg part)
8. sole, flatfish (fish species)
9. (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)

1. letter; a written message
2. leaf; a part of a tree
3. 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

1. piece of paper
2. leaf
3. sole
4. (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

1. 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

1. a strip (of wood or metal, a thin and long board), a border, a beading
2. (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

1. letter

English

Alternative forms

• nummer (dialectal)
• numbre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ?etæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /?n?mb?/
• (General American) enPR: n?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /?n?mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: num?ber

Noun

number (plural numbers)

1. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

2. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.

   Synonyms: scalar, (obsolete) rime

3. (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.

4. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or ?). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.

5. Quantity.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates

     Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.

6. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.

7. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
   • 2001, E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project, Xulon Press, page 86:

     “[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number?”

   • 2007, Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page 111:

     When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number?” Well, I don’t give my number to guys I don’t know.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Marsha's work number is 555-8986.

8. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.

   Synonym: numeral

9. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
10. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.

11. (countable, informal) A person.
    • 1968, Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel, Little, Brown, page 40:

      I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number."

    • 1988, Erica Jong, Serenissima, Dell, page 214:

      "Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number, "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"

    • 2005, Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, page 207:

      He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.

12. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
    • 2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems..., Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 134:

      The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.

    • 2007, Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page 46:

      "I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."

13. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
    • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, page 12:

      Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number, put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips […]

14. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.

    the latest number of a magazine

15. A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
    • 1980, May 10, Al King "Braves travel to New England with reputation", The Indiana Gazette

      Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.

16. (informal, always indefinite) A large amount of damage

    • (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered)

1. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

   Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.

2. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.

   I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.

See also

• (grammatical numbers): singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural

References

• number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived terms

• number among

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary’s Appendix of numbers

Etymology 2

From numb + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?m'?, IPA^(key): /?n?m?/
• (US): enPR: n?m'?r, IPA^(key): /?n?m?/
• Hyphenation: num?ber

Adjective

number

1. comparative form of numb: more numb

Anagrams

• numbre, renumb

Estonian

Etymology

From German Nummer. The added -b- is analoguous to kamber and klamber.

Noun

number (genitive numbri, partitive numbrit)

1. number

Declension

Middle English

Noun

number

1. Alternative form of nombre

Papiamentu

Etymology

From English number.

An analogy of the Papiamentu word nòmber "name".

Noun

number

1. number