What is list?

More definitions of "list":

• (verb): Enumerate.
  Synonyms: number

• (verb): Include in a list.
  Example: "Am I listed in your register?"

• (verb): Tilt to one side.
  Synonyms: heel

• (verb): Give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of.
  Example: "List the states west of the Mississippi"
  Synonyms: name

• (verb): Cause to lean to the side.
  Synonyms: lean

• (noun): A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics).
  Synonyms: listing

Famous quotes containing the word list:

“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)