Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 39
List (n.) 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. "Gartered with a red and blue list." -- Shak.
List (n.) A limit or boundary; a border.
The very list, the very utmost bound, Of all our fortunes. -- Shak.
List (n.) The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
List (n.) A stripe. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
List (n.) 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.
He was the ablest emperor of all the list. -- Bacon.
List (n.) (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
List (n.) (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
List (n.) (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
List (n.) (Tin-plate Manuf.) The first thin coat of tin.
List (n.) (Tin-plate Manuf.) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
Civil list (Great Britain & U.S.), The civil officers of government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc.
Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers. More recently, the civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the reigning monarch's household.
Free list. A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty.
Free list. A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a eriodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.
Syn: Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule.
Usage: List, Roll, Catalogue, Register, Inventory, Schedule. A list is properly a simple series of names, etc., in a brief form, such as might naturally be entered in a narrow strip of paper. A roll was originally a list containing the names of persons belonging to a public body (as Parliament, etc.), which was rolled up and laid aside among its archives.
A catalogue is a list of persons or things arranged in order, and usually containing some description of the same, more or less extended. A register is designed for record or preservation. An inventory is a list of articles, found on hand in a store of goods, or in the estate of a deceased person, or under similar circumstances. A schedule is a formal list or inventory prepared for legal or business purposes.
Listed (imp. & p. p.) of List.
Listing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of List.
List (v. t.) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border. -- Sir H. Wotton.
List (v. t.) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom. -- Tennyson.
List (v. t.) To enroll; to place or register in a list.
Listed among the upper serving men. -- Milton.
List (v. t.) To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
I will list you for my soldier. -- Sir W. Scott.
List (v. t.) (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.
To list a stock (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of stocks called at the meeting of the board.
List (v. i.) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
List (v. t.) To plow and plant with a lister.
List (v. t.) In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe. [Southern U. S.]
List (n.) A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) [syn: list, listing].
List (n.) 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"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" [syn: tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning].
List (v.) Give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of; "List the states west of the Mississippi" [syn: list, name].
List (v.) Include in a list; "Am I listed in your register?"
List (v.) Cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree" [syn: list, lean].
List (v.) Tilt to one side; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard" [syn: list, heel].
List (v.) Enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians" [syn: number, list].
List, Lists, () A data structure holding many values, possibly of different types, which is usually accessed sequentially, working from the head to the end of the tail - an "ordered list". This contrasts with a (one-dimensional) array, any element of which can be accessed equally quickly.
Lists are often stored using a cell and pointer arrangement where each value is stored in a cell along with an associated pointer to the next cell. A special pointer, e.g. zero, marks the end of the list. This is known as a (singly) "linked list". A doubly linked list has pointers from each cell to both next and previous cells.
An unordered list is a set.
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LIST. () A table of cases arranged for trial or argument; as, the trial list, the argument list. See 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3031.
Listel (n.) (Arch.) Same as List, n., 6.
Listened (imp. & p. p.) of Listen.
Listening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Listen.
Listen (v. i.) To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
When we have occasion to listen, and give a more particular attention to some sound, the tympanum is drawn to a more than ordinary tension. -- Holder.
Listen (v. i.) To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.
Listen to me, and by me be ruled. -- Tennyson.
To listen after, to take an interest in. [Obs.]
Soldiers note forts, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors. -- Fuller.
Syn: To attend; hearken. See Attend.
Listen (v. t.) To attend to. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Listen (v.) Hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello".
Listen (v.) Listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision" [syn: listen, hear, take heed].
Listen (v.) Pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of the old men" [syn: heed, mind, listen].
Listener (n.) One who listens; a hearkener.
Listener (n.) Someone who listens attentively [syn: hearer, listener, auditor, attender].
Compare: Leister
Leister, Lister (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish. [Scotland]
Lister (n.) A double-moldboard plow which throws a deep furrow, and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.
Lister (n.) One who makes a list or roll.
Lister (n.) Same as Leister.
Lister (n.) English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912) [syn: Lister, Joseph Lister, Baron Lister].
Lister (n.) Assessor who makes out the tax lists.
Lister (n.) Moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow [syn: lister, lister plow, lister plough, middlebreaker, middle buster].
LISTERS. () This word is used in some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Verm. Rev. Stat. 538.
Listerian (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to listerism.
Listerism (n.) (Med.) The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.
Listful (a.) Attentive. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Listing (n.) The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.
Listing (n.) The selvedge of cloth; list.
Listing (n.) (Carp.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board.
Listing (n.) (Agric.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops. [Local, U. S.]
Listing (n.) A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) [syn: list, listing].
Listing (n.) The act of making a list of items [syn: listing, itemization, itemisation].
Listless (a.) Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. " A listless unconcern." -- Thomson.
Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. -- Dryden.
I was listless, and desponding. -- Swift.
Syn: Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested; languid; spiritless; supine; indolent. -- List"less*ly, adv. -- List"less*ness, n.
Listless (a.) Lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored".
Listless (a.) Marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm; "a dispirited and divided Party"; "reacted to the crisis with listless resignation" [syn: dispirited, listless].
Listless, () In functional programming, a property of a function which allows it to be combined with other functions in a way that eliminates intermediate data structures, especially lists.
Phil Wadler's thesis gives the conditions for a function to be in listless form: each input list is traversed only once, one element at a time, from left to right. Each output list is generated once, one element at a time, from left to right.
No other lists are generated or traversed.
Not all functions can be expressed in listless form (e.g. reverse).
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Lit () A form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.
Lit () Under the influence of alcohol; intoxicated; inebriated; drunk; -- often used with up. [slang]
Lit (a.) Provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn: illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted].
Lit (a.) Set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" [syn: lighted, lit] [ant:
unlighted, unlit].
Lit (n.) The humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit" [syn: literature, lit].
Litanies (n. pl. ) of Litany.
Litany (n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character.
Litany (n.) A prayer in a Christian church service in which the people at the service respond to lines spoken by the person who is leading the service.
Litany (n.) A long list of complaints, problems, etc..
Litany (n.) A prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation.
Litany (n.) A resonant or repetitive chant <a litany of cheering phrases — Herman Wouk>.
Litany (n.) A usually lengthy recitation or enumeration <a familiar litany of complaints>.
Litany (n.) A sizable series or set <a litany of problems>.
Litanies (n.) Pl. of Litany.
Litarge (n.) Litharge.
Litchi (n.) The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form.
Lite (adv., & n.) Little.
Liter (n.) Alt. of Litre.
Litre (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.
Literacy (n.) State of being literate.
Literal (a.) According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
Literal (a.) Following the letter or exact words; not free.
Literal (a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
Literal (a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
Literal (n.) Literal meaning.
Literalism (n.) That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
Literalism (n.) The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.
Literalist (n.) One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
Literalty (n.) The state or quality of being literal.
Literalization (n.) The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.
Literalized (imp. & p. p.) of Literalize.
Literalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Literalize.
Literalize (v. t.) To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.
Literalizer (n.) A literalist.
Literally (adv.) 逐字地，按照字面上地，不誇張地 According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.
Literally (adv.) With close adherence to words; word by word.
Literally (adv.) In a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally" [ant: {figuratively}].
Literally (adv.) (intensifier before a figurative expression) Without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War".
Literalness (n.) The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
Literary (a.) Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
Literary (a.) Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.
Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.
Literate (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.
Literate (n.) A literary man.
Literati (n. pl.) Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
Literatim (adv.) Letter for letter.
Literation (n.) The act or process of representing by letters.
Literator (n.) One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
Literator (n.) A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
Literator (n.) A learned person; a literatus.
Literature (n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
Literature (n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
Literature (n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
Literature (n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
Literati (n. pl. ) of Literatus
Literatus (n.) A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.
-lith () Alt. of -lite.
-lite () Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.
Lith () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.
Lith (n.) A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.
Lithaemia (n.) A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.
Lithagogue (n.) A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
Litharge (n.) Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.
Lithargyrum (n.) Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.
Lithate (n.) A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.
Lithe (v. i. & i.) To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
Lithe (a.) Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.
Lithe (a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.
Lithe (a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.
Lithely (adv.) In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.
Litheness (n.) The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
Lither (a.) Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.
Litherly (a.) Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.
Lithesome (a.) 柔軟的，輕快的 Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
Lithesome (a.) Moving and bending with ease [syn: {lissome}, {lissom}, {lithe}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {svelte}, {sylphlike}].
Lithia (n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium.
Lithiasis (n.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.
Lithic (a.) Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.
Lithic (a.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.