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Enlist vs. List — What's the Difference?

Enlist vs. List — What's the Difference?

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Enlist

Enrol or be enrolled in the armed services
He enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service
Hundreds of thousands of recruits had been enlisted

List

A series of names, words, or other items written, printed, or imagined one after the other
A shopping list.
A guest list.
A list of things to do.

Enlist

To engage (persons or a person) for service in the armed forces.

List

A considerable number; a long series
Recited a list of dates memorized.

Enlist

To engage the support or cooperation of.
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List

A narrow strip, especially of wood.

Enlist

To enter the armed forces, especially by choice.

List

(Architecture) See listel.

Enlist

To participate actively in a cause or enterprise.

List

A border or selvage of cloth.

Enlist

(transitive) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

List

A stripe or band of color.

Enlist

(intransitive) To voluntarily join a cause or organization, especially military service.
The army wants potential soldiers to enlist.

List

Often lists An arena for jousting tournaments or other contests.

Enlist

(transitive) To recruit the aid or membership of others.
We enlisted fifty new members.

List

A place of combat.

Enlist

(transitive) To secure; to obtain.
They enlisted the government's support.

List

An area of controversy.

Enlist

One who is enlisted, usually in a military service.

List

A ridge thrown up between two furrows by a lister in plowing.

Enlist

To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

List

(Obsolete) A boundary; a border.

Enlist

To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.

List

An inclination to one side, as of a ship; a tilt.

Enlist

To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.

List

A desire or inclination.

Enlist

To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.

List

To make a list of; itemize
Listed his previous jobs.

Enlist

To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.

List

To enter in a list; register
Listed each item received.

Enlist

Join the military

List

To put (oneself) in a specific category
Lists herself as an artist.

Enlist

As of aid, help, services, or support

List

(Archaic) To recruit.

Enlist

Engage somebody to enter the army

List

To have a stated list price
A radio that lists for ten dollars over the sale price.

List

(Archaic) To enlist in the armed forces.

List

To cover, line, or edge with list.

List

To cut a thin strip from the edge of.

List

To furrow or plant (land) with a lister.

List

To lean or cause to lean to the side
The damaged ship listed badly to starboard. Erosion first listed, then toppled the spruce tree.

List

To listen or listen to.

List

To be pleasing to; suit.

List

To be disposed; choose.

List

A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

List

Material used for cloth selvage.

List

A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

List

The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.

List

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.

List

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.

List

(architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

List

(carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.

List

(ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

List

(tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

List

(obsolete) A stripe.

List

(obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border.

List

(archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.

List

(obsolete) Desire, inclination.

List

(architecture) A tilt to a building.

List

(nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.

List

(transitive) To create or recite a list.

List

(transitive) To place in listings.

List

(transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.

List

(transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
To list a door

List

To plough and plant with a lister.

List

To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.

List

To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
To list a board

List

To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

List

To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

List

To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

List

To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.

List

To listen.

List

To listen to.

List

To be pleasing to.

List

To desire, like, or wish (to do something).

List

To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
The steady wind listed the ship

List

To tilt to one side.
The ship listed to port

List

A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.

List

Inclination; desire.

List

An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.

List

A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet.

List

A limit or boundary; a border.
The very list, the very utmost bound,Of all our fortunes.

List

The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.

List

A stripe.

List

A roll or catalogue, that is, row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.
He was the ablest emperor of all the list.

List

A little square molding; a fillet; - called also listel.

List

A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

List

A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.

List

The first thin coat of tin.

List

To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.

List

To hearken; to attend; to listen.
Stand close, and list to him.

List

To listen or hearken to.
Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain,If with too credent ear you list his songs.

List

To desire or choose; to please.
The wind bloweth where it listeth.
Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth.
Let other men think of your devices as they list.

List

To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.

List

To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.

List

To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.

List

To enroll; to place or register in a list.
Listed among the upper serving men.

List

To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
I will list you for my soldier.

List

To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.

List

To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

List

To plow and plant with a lister.

List

In cotton culture, to prepare, as land, for the crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.

List

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

List

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;
The tower had a pronounced tilt
The ship developed a list to starboard
He walked with a heavy inclination to the right

List

Give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of;
List the states west of the Mississippi

List

Include in a list;
Am I listed in your register?

List

Enumerate;
We must number the names of the great mathematicians

List

Cause to lean to the side;
Erosion listed the old tree

List

Tilt to one side;
The balloon heeled over
The wind made the vessel heel
The ship listed to starboard

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