list
/lɪst/ noun A1- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
- 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.
- A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
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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.
Oh, Anne, what does it feel like to see your name at the head of a pass list like that?
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