How to pronounce list

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What list means

verb

Most people know list in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To lean over to one side, as a ship does

In a sentence: After the storm, the old fishing boat listed badly to the left.

Where it comes from: No one is sure where it came from. It possibly grew from an old word for wanting, in the sense of leaning toward what you want, and it is a different word from list, a set of items.

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