The difference between List and Listen

List as a noun:

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

List as a noun:

Material used for cloth selvage.

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.

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

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

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.

List as a noun (architecture):

A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

List as a noun (carpentry):

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

List as a noun (ropemaking):

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

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.

List as a noun (obsolete):

A stripe.

List as a noun (obsolete):

A boundary or limit; a border.

List as a verb (transitive):

To create or recite a list.

List as a verb (transitive):

To place in listings.

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.

List as a verb (transitive):

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

List as a verb (transitive, agriculture):

To plough and plant with a lister.

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.

List as a verb (transitive, carpentry):

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

List as a verb (transitive, military):

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

List as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

List as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

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

List as a noun (archaic):

Art; craft; cunning; skill.

List as a verb (intransitive, poetic):

To listen.

List as a verb (transitive, poetic):

To listen to.

List as a verb (transitive, archaic):

To be pleasing to.

List as a verb (transitive, archaic):

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

List as a noun (obsolete):

Desire, inclination.

List as a noun (architecture):

A tilt to a building.

List as a noun (nautical):

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

List as a verb (transitive, nautical):

To cause (something) to tilt to one side.

List as a verb (intransitive, nautical):

To tilt to one side.

Listen as a verb (intransitive):

To pay attention to a sound or speech.

Listen as a verb (intransitive):

To expect or wait for a sound, such as a signal.

Listen as a verb (intransitive):

To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.

Listen as a verb (transitive, archaic):

To hear (something or someone), to pay attention to.