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English Dictionary: listing by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
listing
n
  1. a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
    Synonym(s): list, listing
  2. the act of making a list of items
    Synonym(s): listing, itemization, itemisation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   List \List\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Listed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Listing}.] [From list a roll.]
      1. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show
            of colors, or form a border. --Sir H. Wotton.
  
      2. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list
            on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
  
                     The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.
                                                                              --Tennyson.
  
      3. To enroll; to place or register in a list.
  
                     Listed among the upper serving men.   --Milton.
  
      4. To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
  
                     I will list you for my soldier.         --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      5. (Carp.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from
            the edge of; as, to list a board.
  
      {To list a stock} (Stock Exchange), to put it in the list of
            stocks called at the meeting of the board.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Listing \List"ing\, n.
      1. The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the
            verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock
            at the Stock Exchange.
  
      2. The selvedge of cloth; list.
  
      3. (Carp.) The sapwood cut from the edge of a board.
  
      4. (Agric.) The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a
            method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden
            crops. [Local, U. S.]
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