lister
See also: Lister
English
Alternative forms
- leister (fish spear)
Noun
lister (plural listers)
- A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
Etymology 2
list + -er
Noun
lister (plural listers)
- One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing.
- 1984, John C. Nash, Effective scientific problem solving with small computers (page 113)
- A good program lister is helpful here, since many language processors allow multi-statement lines. For BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and similar languages, the lister can split multi-statement lines, ensure there are blanks between keywords […]
- 1984, John C. Nash, Effective scientific problem solving with small computers (page 113)
- A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists.
- (birdwatching) A birdwatcher who keeps track of birds using different checklists.
Related terms
- list
- List 99
- listee
- listing
- List X
Etymology 3
Compare list (“a strip, border”), probably applied to the furrow or the ridge of earth along the furrow.
Noun
lister (plural listers)
- A double-mouldboard plough that throws a deep furrow and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.
Translations
A double-mouldboard plough
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Anagrams
- Sitler, liters, litres, relist, tilers, triels
Danish
Noun
lister c
- indefinite plural of liste
Verb
lister
- present of liste
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lis.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
lister
- list (to create a list)
Conjugation
Conjugation of lister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | lister | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | listant /lis.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | listé /lis.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | liste /list/ | listes /list/ | liste /list/ | listons /lis.tɔ̃/ | listez /lis.te/ | listent /list/ |
| imperfect | listais /lis.tɛ/ | listais /lis.tɛ/ | listait /lis.tɛ/ | listions /lis.tjɔ̃/ | listiez /lis.tje/ | listaient /lis.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | listai /lis.te/ | listas /lis.ta/ | lista /lis.ta/ | listâmes /lis.tam/ | listâtes /lis.tat/ | listèrent /lis.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | listerai /lis.tə.ʁe/ | listeras /lis.tə.ʁa/ | listera /lis.tə.ʁa/ | listerons /lis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | listerez /lis.tə.ʁe/ | listeront /lis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | listerais /lis.tə.ʁɛ/ | listerais /lis.tə.ʁɛ/ | listerait /lis.tə.ʁɛ/ | listerions /lis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | listeriez /lis.tə.ʁje/ | listeraient /lis.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | liste /list/ | listes /list/ | liste /list/ | listions /lis.tjɔ̃/ | listiez /lis.tje/ | listent /list/ |
| imperfect2 | listasse /lis.tas/ | listasses /lis.tas/ | listât /lis.ta/ | listassions /lis.ta.sjɔ̃/ | listassiez /lis.ta.sje/ | listassent /lis.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | liste /list/ | — | listons /lis.tɔ̃/ | listez /lis.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “lister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- litres
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
lister m or f
- indefinite plural of liste
Verb
lister
- present of liste
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
lister f
- indefinite plural of liste
Swedish
Noun
lister
- indefinite plural of list.
Anagrams
- liters, sliter, steril