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listing
     1. adj. As listed or shown on a listing.
           What is this house's listing price?
     2. n. The action of the verb to list.
     3. n. An entry in a list or directory.
           Aardvaark Plumbing is the first listing in Yellow Pages.
     4. n. (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
           Print me a listing of the latest version.
     5. n. A physical manifestation of a single item in a list; as a single twenty page (bound) listing.
           Please pass me the second listing for the two story house, from that stack.
     6. n. The act of ploughing with a lister.
list
     1. n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
     2. n. Material used for cloth selvage.
     3. n. A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
     4. n. (in the historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
     5. n. (computing, programming) 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 mor
     6. n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
     7. n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
     8. n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
     9. n. (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.
     10. n. (obsolete) A stripe.
     11. n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border.
     12. v. To create or recite a list.
     13. v. To place in listings.
     14. v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
     15. v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
           to list a door
     16. v. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
     17. v. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
     18. v. (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
           to list a board
     19. v. (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
     20. v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
     21. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
     22. n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
     23. v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
     24. v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
     25. v. (transitive, archaic) To be pleasing to.
     26. v. (transitive, archaic) To desire, like, or wish (to do something).
     27. n. (obsolete) Desire, inclination.
     28. n. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
     29. n. (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
     30. v. (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
           the steady wind listed the ship
     31. v. (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
           the ship listed to port

Example Sentences

Listing them would waste paper, and time. 
It is a simple fact that a public listing encourages quality financing, management alertness and better corporate governance, if only because the numbers and individuals involved are open to much more public scrutiny. 



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