Gist vs. List

The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.

The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action.

(obsolete) Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.

To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of.

A resting place.

Example: ‘These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.’;

The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

Example: ‘the gist of the prosecutor's argument’; ‘the heart and soul of the Republican Party’; ‘the nub of the story’;

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

Material used for cloth selvage.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

(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.

(obsolete) A stripe.

(obsolete) A boundary or limit; a border.

(archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.

(obsolete) Desire, inclination.

(architecture) A tilt to a building.

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

(transitive) To create or recite a list.

(transitive) To place in listings.

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

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

Example: ‘to list a door’;

To plough and plant with a lister.

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

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

Example: ‘to list a board’;

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

To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

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

To listen.

To listen to.

To be pleasing to.

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

To cause (something) to tilt to one side.

Example: ‘the steady wind listed the ship’;

To tilt to one side.

Example: ‘the ship listed to port’;

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.

Example: ‘In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.’;

Inclination; desire.

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

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.

A limit or boundary; a border.

Example: ‘The very list, the very utmost bound,Of all our fortunes.’;

The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.

A stripe.

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.

Example: ‘He was the ablest emperor of all the list.’;

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

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

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

The first thin coat of tin.

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

To hearken; to attend; to listen.

Example: ‘Stand close, and list to him.’;

To listen or hearken to.

Example: ‘Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain,If with too credent ear you list his songs.’;

To desire or choose; to please.

Example: ‘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.’;

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

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

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

Example: ‘The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.’;

To enroll; to place or register in a list.

Example: ‘Listed among the upper serving men.’;

To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.

Example: ‘I will list you for my soldier.’;

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

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

To plow and plant with a lister.

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

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

the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;

Example: ‘the tower had a pronounced tilt’; ‘the ship developed a list to starboard’; ‘he walked with a heavy inclination to the right’;

give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of;

Example: ‘List the states west of the Mississippi’;

include in a list;

Example: ‘Am I listed in your register?’;

enumerate;

Example: ‘We must number the names of the great mathematicians’;

cause to lean to the side;

Example: ‘Erosion listed the old tree’;

tilt to one side;

Example: ‘The balloon heeled over’; ‘the wind made the vessel heel’; ‘The ship listed to starboard’;