A list can function as an aide-memoire.
A strip is a strip or strip of paper, fabric, or other material . The concept is usually used to name the enumeration that is carried out for a certain purpose. The lists are made in column form and can be completed with ingredients, quantities, names of people or any other information, depending on the purpose in question.
It is common for people to make lists so as not to forget any product when shopping . For example: “I already wrote down the apples, milk and water on the list… do we need anything else?” , “I think we are going to spend a lot of money: look at the length of the shopping list” .
Lists in celebrations
It is possible, on the other hand, to speak of a guest list to refer to the people that the organizer of an event intends to invite. There are guest lists for birthdays, weddings, product presentations, etc.: “Excuse me, but you cannot enter: your name is not part of the guest list,” “Tomorrow I have to deliver the list to the party room but not yet.” I finish making it.”
Precisely also within the scope of celebrations there are other types of very important lists. We are referring to what are known as wedding lists or birth lists . Specifically, those are the ones made by the bride and groom, in the first case, and by the future parents, in the second place, establishing all the items they need. In this way, guests at these celebrations will be able to give them one of those.
An enumeration is carried out in a list.
A call
Another use of a list is related to the call to a team or squad. In these cases, the list is put together with the names of those who will be part of the actions.
“Rodríguez was surprised to see his name on the squad list”y “Sources close to the coach assure that the captain will not be on the list for the Copa América that will be played next month” son expresiones que muestran este uso.
Movie "Schlinder's List"
There are other types of lists that, in their case, are of a historical nature: one of them is the one that gives the title to a film. We are referring to “Schlinder's List” , a film directed in 1993 by the great Steven Spielberg and which tells the real case of Oskar Schlinder , a German businessman who during the time of Nazism saved more than 1,100 Jews from certain death. or having to be confined in concentration camps.
In 2009 , in an Australian library, among the documentary collections, the original list that that German man, curiously from the Nazi party, wrote in his own handwriting establishing the names and surnames of all the Jews that he would manage to save from a bloody future was found. .
Other uses of the term
In addition to all of the above, we cannot overlook that within gastronomy the term list also has special relevance. Specifically in Madrid there is a typical sweet from the San Isidro Festival that receives that name. It is a donut that is dipped in sugar, lemon and egg.
A smart individual, finally, is one who is sagacious, expeditious or diligent : “The boy is very smart: he always solves clients' problems in a few minutes.”