Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A list of ‘subs,’ or men who are willing to serve as substitutes for the regular compositors on a newspaper during their absence.

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Examples

  • There is also an additional 'Best Of' sub-list about books published after 1990, for the sake of completeness.

    David Langford's Top 20 Pre-1990 Genre Novels Adam Whitehead 2009

  • You ` ve got a sub-list called "guys on the rise."

    CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2005 2005

  • Recursively sort the sub-list of lesser elements and the sub-list of greater elements. base case of the recursion are lists of size zero or one, which never need to be sorted.

    Site Home DorianCorompt 2012

  • The natural interpretation of ">" is "start a sub-list of this item".

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2010

  • The natural interpretation of ">" is "start a sub-list of this item".

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2010

  • Which has triggered the usual flurry of procrastinatory blog posts indicating which books from the science fiction and fantasy sub-list one has and hasn't read.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • Which has triggered the usual flurry of procrastinatory blog posts indicating which books from the science fiction and fantasy sub-list one has and hasn't read.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • Each state now has a little sub-list of regions and the respective transit companies that are a part of Google's index.

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2009

  • Each state now has a little sub-list of regions and the respective transit companies that are a part of Google's index.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Fixed function so that if it comes across a sub-list it will return the entire list string as a Bencoded list.

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

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