The difference between Enroll and List

When used as verbs, enroll means to enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list, whereas list means to create or recite a list.


List is also noun with the meaning: a strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

check bellow for the other definitions of Enroll and List

  1. Enroll as a verb (transitive):

    To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list

  2. Enroll as a verb (transitive):

    To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of

    Examples:

    "They were eager to enroll new recruits."

  3. Enroll as a verb (intransitive):

    To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)

    Examples:

    "Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?"

  4. Enroll as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To envelop; to enwrap.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

  1. List as a noun:

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

  2. List as a noun:

    Material used for cloth selvage.

  3. List as a noun:

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

  4. List as a noun (in the plural, historical):

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

  5. List as a noun (computing, programming):

    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.

  6. List as a noun (architecture):

    A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

  7. List as a noun (carpentry):

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

  8. List as a noun (ropemaking):

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

  9. List as a noun (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.

  10. List as a noun (obsolete):

    A stripe.

  11. List as a noun (obsolete):

    A boundary or limit; a border.

  1. List as a verb (transitive):

    To create or recite a list.

  2. List as a verb (transitive):

    To place in listings.

  3. List as a verb (transitive):

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

  4. List as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "to list a door"

  5. List as a verb (transitive, agriculture):

    To plough and plant with a lister.

  6. List as a verb (transitive, agriculture, chiefly, Southern US):

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

  7. List as a verb (transitive, carpentry):

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

    Examples:

    "to list a board"

  8. List as a verb (transitive, military):

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

  9. List as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

  10. List as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

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

  1. List as a noun (archaic):

    Art; craft; cunning; skill.

  1. List as a verb (intransitive, poetic):

    To listen.

  2. List as a verb (transitive, poetic):

    To listen to.

  1. List as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To be pleasing to.

  2. List as a verb (transitive, archaic):

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

  1. List as a noun (obsolete):

    Desire, inclination.

  1. List as a noun (architecture):

    A tilt to a building.

  2. List as a noun (nautical):

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

  1. List as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To cause (something) to tilt to one side.

    Examples:

    "the steady wind listed the ship"

  2. List as a verb (intransitive, nautical):

    To tilt to one side.

    Examples:

    "the ship listed to port"