list1
• noun 1 a number of connected items or names written consecutively. 2 (lists) historical palisades enclosing an area for a tournament. 3 a selvedge of a piece of fabric. • verb 1 make a list of. 2 include in a list. 3 archaic enlist for military service. — PHRASES enter the lists issue or accept a challenge. — ORIGIN the origin of the noun is complex: sense 1 entered English from French liste, and developed from an obsolete use of sense 3 denoting a strip of paper; sense 3 itself derives from an Old English word meaning ‘a border or edging’; sense 2 is from Old French lisse.
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