list
/lɪst/ verb C2- To create or recite a list.
- To place in listings.
- To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list. · to list a door
- To plough and plant with a lister.
- To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of. · to list a board
- To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
He/she/it lists · Past listed · Past participle listed · -ing form listing
Verb forms
- Base form
- list
- He/she/it
- lists
- Past
- listed
- Past participle
- listed
- -ing form
- listing
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“Well now, I always said it,” said Matthew, gazing at the pass list delightedly.
The pass list was out!
Yes, she had passed--there was her name at the very top of a list of two hundred!
“Father brought the paper home from Bright River not ten minutes ago--it came out on the afternoon train, you know, and won’t be here till tomorrow by mail--and when I saw the pass list I just rushed over like a wild thing.
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