Definition of z-list in English English dictionary
- A group of people who are very far from stardom, unlike the A-list. Thus called because the letter Z is so far from the letter A in the alphabet
- A-list
- An informal list of people in any of several categories (but especially in the entertainment industry) who are most admired, desirable or bankable
- B-list
- An informal list of people in any of several categories (but especially in the entertainment industry) who are admired, desirable or bankable, but not as much as the people on the A-list
- Christmas list
- a list, normally on paper, of items one wants to receive as presents for Christmas
A handbag was way out of my league and so was a silver necklace that I wouldn't even put on my Christmas list, since no one in my family could afford it.
- Christmas list
- a list, normally on paper, of people one is going to send cards or presents to at Christmas
What a great idea for the many friends and neighbors on your Christmas list!.
- List 99
- A confidential register of people forbidden to work with children, maintained by the Department of Education and Skills
The management of the registration of people considered to be unsuitable to work with children and placed on List 99 became increasingly complex.
- Red List
- a list of endangered species, created by the World Conservation Monitoring Center
- Swadesh list
- one of the lists of vocabulary with "basic" meanings developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1940-50s
- access control list
- A security scheme for file level security (as opposed to traditional user, group levels, or the somewhat stricter role levels.) Abbreviated ACL
The hackers broke through the B security model, so no more role level security; all critical data must use access control lists from now on.
- association list
- A data structure that associates keys with data; implimented as a list whose members are paired storage locations (cons cells), one element of which (the car) contains the key and the other element of which (the cdr) contains the keyed data
- bullet list
- A list whose items start with the typographical symbol of bullet, that is •, or with other symbols other than numbers
- bulleted list
- A list whose items start with the typographical symbol of bullet, that is •, or with other symbols other than numbers
- clout list
- A usually secret list containing the names of people who are to be given special access, benefits, or influence in a political or social situation, especially as a result of having personal, professional, or financial relationships with those in authority
The University of Illinois announced Monday that it will temporarily suspend the use of a clout list in the admissions process—a practice school officials first downplayed after it was described in a Tribune investigation.
- definition list
- An HTML structure consisting of a number of tags intended to present a set of pairs of terms and their definitions as a list
- drop-down list
- Alternative spelling of drop down list
- dropdown list
- A user interface control GUI element similar to a list box which allows the user to choose one value from a list
- friends list
- A list of contacts (in social networking, instant messaging, etc.), ostensibly the user's friends
- grocery list
- A written or mental list of grocery items one intends to purchase at a supermarket or similar business
The man put milk, bread and eggs at the top of his grocery list.
- hit list
- A similar list of people to be approached for a charitable donation
- hit list
- A roster of potential victims, especially a list of people to be killed
- honey do list
- a collection of requests, usually by a spouse for someone to perform a series of tasks, assignments or jobs dealing with the operations of a household
- laundry list
- Originally, a list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered
Learn how to make out a laundry list and to check it when the laundry comes home.
- laundry list
- A long and often tedious list of items
Among the laundry list of inconveniences most of us can't abide: cold coffee, airport delays, the high price of gasoline.
- linked list
- A simple linear data structure, each of whose nodes includes pointers to the previous and subsequent nodes in the list, enabling traversal of the structure from any starting point
- list
- a tilting or careening manoeuvre, which causes the ship to roll. Usually used to describe tilting not under a ship's own power
- list
- The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments
- list
- a tilt to a building
- list
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth
- list
- To be pleasing to
- list
- To create or recite a list
- list
- To listen
Peace, what noise? / List, list! / Hark! / Music i' the air.
I do not have to listen to that.
- I don't have to listen to that.
I don't have to listen to that.
- I do not have to listen to that.
- list
- A data structure that is fundamental to the LISP language. A list is defined recursively: it may be nil or it may consist of a header (the first element) and a tail (the remainder; the tail may be nil). Both header and tail are lists
- list
- To place in listings
- list
- A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing
- list
- To wish, like, desire (to do something)
The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.
- list
- A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items
- list
- to carry out such a manoeuvre
- list
- Material used for cloth selvage
- list box
- A GUI widget that allows the user to select one or more items from a list contained within a static, multiple line text box
- mailing list
- A collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients
- no fly list
- Alternative form of no-fly list
- no-fly list
- A confidential list containing the names of people who are not permitted to board an aircraft, prepared by government authorities in various jurisdictions and distributed to commercial airlines
The no-fly list created by U.S. authorities, which singles out passengers who are potential terrorist threats, is the target of frequent criticism that it's incomplete and unreliable.
- nofly list
- Alternative form of no-fly list
- numbered list
- A list whose items are numbered, with various styles including Arabic numerals and Roman numerals
- price list
- A list of items for sale with their prices
- punch list
- The list of repairs and finish work required to complete a large project, such as the construction of a building; a list of problems to correct
The building opened on schedule, but it took them another three months to get through the punch list.
- reference list
- The list of sources used or considered in preparing a work
- set list
- A band's playlist of the order of songs in a live performance
- shopping list
- A list, written on e.g. a piece of paper, of items that need to be bought
- shopping list
- A list of related items
- short list
- A list of candidates that has been generated from a longer list (a long list)
- short-list
- Alternative spelling of short list
- short-list
- Alternative spelling of shortlist
- sick list
- A list of people who are ill
- stop list
- A list of people who subscribe to a publication (e.g., newspaper) and no longer wish to receive it
- stop list
- A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation
If you equip your search engine with a stop list containing a few common words such as a, the, and and, you can decrease the full-text index size by about 20%.
- to-do list
- A list of errands and other tasks – often written on a piece of paper as a memory aid – that one needs or intends to accomplish
Mowing the lawn and chopping the weeds topped his to-do list of chores.
- waiting list
- an ordered list of people waiting to obtain something
- want list
- A list of items missing from a collection; especially a list of postage stamps that a collector is seeking to acquire
- wine list
- A list of wines, usually with a small description, available at eg. a restaurant or bar
- wish list
- A list of desired things
- list
- {n} a roll, catalogue, place for fighting, strip of cloth, fillet, coarse wool, an inclining, a bill of ratable estate
- list
- {v} to cover with list, inlist, hear, like
- A-list
- A real or imaginary list of the most celebrated individuals, especially in show business: [as modifier] an A-list celebrity
- dean's honour list
- The Dean's Honour List is not a recognition given each year to outstanding students by their faculty
- skip list
- (Bilgisayar) A skip list is a data structure for storing a sorted list of items, using a hierarchy of linked lists that connect increasingly sparse subsequences of the items. These auxiliary lists allow item lookup with efficiency comparable to balanced binary search trees (that is, with number of probes proportional to log n instead of n)
- snag list
- (İnşaat) (or snagging list) A list of quality defects at the end of a build process/phase/stage