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n.
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a number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other:
consult the list of drugs on page 326
writing a shopping list.
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a set of items considered as being in the same category or having a particular order of priority:
tourism is at the top of the list of potential job creators.
∎ Comput.
a formal structure analogous to a list by which items of data can be stored or processed in a definite order.
[ORIGIN: late 16th cent.: from French liste, of Germanic origin.]
2. (lists) hist.
barriers enclosing an area for a jousting tournament.
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the scene of a contest or combat.
[ORIGIN: late Middle English: from Old French lisse.]
3.
a selvage of a piece of fabric.
[ORIGIN: Middle English, from Old English liste ‘border,’ of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijst and German Leiste.]
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v. [tr.]
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make a list of:
I have listed four reasons below.
∎ (often be listed)
include or enter in a list:
93 men were still listed as missing.
∎ [intr.] (list at/for)
be on a list of products at (a specified price):
the bottom-of-the-line Mercedes lists for $52,050.
2. archaic
enlist for military service.
PHRASES:
enter the lists
issue or accept a challenge.DERIVATIVES:
list·a·ble
adj.
list2
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v. [intr.]
(of a ship) lean to one side, typically because of a leak or unbalanced cargo.Compare with heel2 .
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n.
an instance of a ship leaning over in such a way.
list3
archaic
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v. [intr.]
want; like:
let them think what they list.
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n.
desire; inclination:
I have little list to write.
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The Battle of Lechfeld: August 10th, 955.(MONTHS PAST)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...where a Slav invasion was threatened. Battle was joined at the Lechfeld, somewhere south of Augbsurg on the banks of the River Lech...Germany, but had also revived the Holy Roman Empire. Before the Lechfeld battle he had already had himself crowned King of the Lombards...
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Charles R. Bowlus, The Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, August 955: The End of the Age of Migrations in the Latin West.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2007; 526 words
; Charles R. Bowlus, The Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, August 955: The End of the Age of Migrations...territory of the Empire came to an end with the defeat on the Lechfeld, a broad plain south of Augsburg, on 10 August 955. This...
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The battle of Lechfeld and its aftermath, August 955; the end of the age of migrations in the Latin west.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 474 words
; 0754654702 The battle of Lechfeld and its aftermath, August 955; the end of the age of migrations in the Latin west. Bowlus, Charles R. Ashgate Publishing Co...
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Attitude Adjustment: How the Hungarians got it; who needs it now.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/3/2002; ; 700+ words
; The battle of the Lechfeld, which was fought on a rainy Friday...a bit unfair, but understandable. Lechfeld was decisive -- very decisive...large, though, the battle of the Lechfeld deserves a chapter all to itself in...
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American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets
Magazine article from: Air & Space Power Journal; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...account is devoted to the AAF's attempts to obtain Me 262 fighters at Lechfeld in Bavaria and an Arado Ar 234 jet bomber from Denmark, then located in the British zone. At Lechfeld the AAF found Messerschmitt pilots, designers, and mechanics...
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Germany slims down
Magazine article from: Interavia; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...control will also be streamlined; airborne and ground based capabilties for electronic warfare will be concentrated to form a new electronic warfare center co-located with the Tornado ECR wing at Lechfeld in Bavaria. ALEXANDER SZANDAR
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Germany slims down.(Germany will close garrisons and disband a fighter wing)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Interavia Business & Technology; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Military air control will also be streamlined; airborne and ground based capabilities for electronic warfare will be concentrated to form a new electronic warfare center co-located with the Tornado ECR wing at Lechfeld in Bavaria.
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German defense: reforms or cuts? (European Report).
Magazine article from: Journal of Electronic Defense; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...thereafter. The decision will leave only two Tornado wings after 2005: JaBoG 31 from Norvenich (Tornado IDS) and JaBoG 32 from Lechfeld (Tornado ECR). JaBoG 33 is to be converted to Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, as one of the four wings operating this type...
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German military jet crashes, killing two
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/9/2004; 159 words
; ...The Tornado aircraft, which was on a training flight, plunged into woodland 3.5 kilometers (2 miles) from the Lager-Lechfeld base. The German air force said the cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Copyright 2004, AP News All Rights Reserved
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Installation closings
Magazine article from: Soldiers; 4/1/1997; ; 477 words
; ...Family Housing Area. Two other Augsburg housing areas-Centerville and Cramerton - will also close, as will the Deuringen and Lechfeld training areas. These four areas were partial returns and Department of Defense officials said these moves will close all...
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Lechfeld
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lechfeld , plain near Augsburg, S Germany, drained by the Lech River. There in 955, King (later Emperor) Otto I defeated the Magyars and stopped their expansion into central Europe.
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Lechfeld, Battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Lechfeld, Battle of (955) A major battle fought near Augsburg, in Germany, when the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor OTTO I defeated the MAGYARS . This put an end to their westward expansion and the long period of harassment which they had inflicted on the German empire.
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Otto I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...revolt and crushed the Hungarians at the decisive battle of Lechfeld in 955. Once these tasks were accomplished, Otto gave the duchy of Lorraine, whose duke had perished at Lechfeld, to his clerical brother Archbishop Bruno of Cologne. At...
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Austria
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia
...Huns, Avars, and Magyars from the east. The threat from the eastern Magyars was finally ended in the decisive battle of Lechfeld in 955 A.D. Shortly thereafter, in 976 A.D., a period of stability and development was ushered in under the rule of...
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Magyars
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...Hungary in the 9th century. They harassed the German kingdom but were finally defeated and repulsed by Otto I at the Battle of LECHFELD . Pope Sylvester crowned Stephen as the first king of their country in 1000 and he established unity and introduced Christianity...
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