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What does list mean?

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Noun
  1. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  2. Material used for cloth selvage.
  3. (plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
  4. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the enumeration or compilation itself.
  5. (computing) 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.
  6. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
  7. (obsolete) A stripe.
  8. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
  9. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
  10. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
  11. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
  12. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
Verb
  1. To create or recite a list.
  2. To place in listings.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
  5. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
  6. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
  7. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
  8. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
  9. To plough and plant with a lister.
  10. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
Noun
  1. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
Verb
  1. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
  2. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
Noun
  1. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
  2. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
Verb
  1. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
  2. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
Verb
  1. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  2. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
Noun
  1. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.
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