Dictionary Entry
list
list is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 31 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
- 2transitive verb
To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
- 3intransitive verb
To hearken; to attend; to listen.
- 4transitive verb
To listen or hearken to.
- 5intransitive verb
To desire or choose; to please.
- 6intransitive verb
To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.
- 7noun
Inclination; desire.
- 8noun
An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.
- 9noun
A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet.
- 10noun
A limit or boundary; a border.
- 11noun
The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
- 12noun
A stripe.
- 13noun
A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.
- 14noun
A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
- 15noun
A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
- 16noun
A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
- 17noun
The first thin coat of tin.
- 18noun
A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- 19transitive verb
To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.
- 20transitive verb
To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
- 21transitive verb
To enroll; to place or register in a list.
- 22transitive verb
To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
- 23transitive verb
To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.
- 24intransitive verb
To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
- 25noun
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
"the tower had a pronounced tilt"
"the ship developed a list to starboard"
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- 26noun
a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
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- 27verb
give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
"List the states west of the Mississippi"
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- 28verb
enumerate
"We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
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- 29verb
tilt to one side
"The balloon heeled over"
"the wind made the vessel heel"
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- 30verb
cause to lean to the side
"Erosion listed the old tree"
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- 31verb
include in a list
"Am I listed in your register?"
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