list

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A set of items written or printed one after another.

   I made a list of things to buy at the store.

2. 2
   verb

   To write or name things one after another.

   Please list all the ingredients you need.

3. 3
   verb

   To lean to one side (especially a ship).

   The damaged ship began to list to the right.

From Middle English lī̆st, lī̆ste (“band, stripe; hem, selvage; border, edge, rim; list, specification; barriers enclosing area for jousting, etc.”), from Old English līste (“hem, edge, strip”), or Old French liste, listre (“border; band; strip of paper; list”), or Medieval Latin lista, all from Proto-West Germanic *līstā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”). Cognates * Saterland Frisian Lieste (“margin, strip, list”) * Dutch lijst (“picture frame, list”) * German Low German Liest (“edging, border”) * German Leiste (“strip, rail, ledge; (heraldry) bar”) * Swedish lista…

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