lister

See also: Lister

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

lister (plural listers)

  1. A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.

Etymology 2

list +‎ -er

Noun

lister (plural listers)

  1. 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 […]
  2. A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists.
  3. (birdwatching) A birdwatcher who keeps track of birds using different checklists.

Etymology 3

Compare list (“a strip, border”), probably applied to the furrow or the ridge of earth along the furrow.

Noun

lister (plural listers)

  1. A double-mouldboard plough that throws a deep furrow and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

lister c

  1. plural indefinite of liste

Verb

lister

  1. present of liste

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lis.te/

Verb

lister

  1. list (to create a list)

Conjugation
Conjugation of lister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle listant
/lis.tɑ̃/
past participle listé
/lis.te/
infinitive
simple lister
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple listant
/lis.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle 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 – tu – nous vous –
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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lister m or f

  1. indefinite plural of liste

Verb

lister

  1. present tense of liste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lister f

  1. indefinite plural of liste

Swedish

Noun

lister

  1. indefinite plural of list
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