Meaning

noun a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)

noun the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical

verb give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of

originFrom 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 *…

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