Look up list in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

List or lists may refer to:

Enumerations[link]

• Any enumeration of a set of items
• A list of comma separated values, a common way of listing in everyday life and computing. (British usage: Comma-separated values)
• A mailing list
• An electronic mailing list
• An electoral list
• List (computing)
• Task lists, a list of tasks to be completed
• Listicle, an article in list format
• Watchlist
• Ranker

Other meanings[link]

• List (watercraft), the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship
• List, an alternative term for roll in flight dynamics
• Lists (jousting), a roped-off enclosure where medieval knights jousted
• SC Germania List, German rugby union club
• List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

People[link]

• Friedrich List, German economist
• Guido von List, Austrian Armanist
• John List, murderer
• Liesbeth List, Dutch singer
• Maximilian List, SS officer and Commandant of Lager Sylt, a labour camp on Alderney
• Paul List, chess player
• Peyton List, the name of two American actresses:
  • Peyton List (actress born 1986), American actress in the TV series Mad Men
  • Peyton List (actress born 1998), American actress in the Disney Channel TV series Jessie
• Siegmund Wilhelm List, WWII German field marshal

Places[link]

• List, Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island Sylt

Work titles[link]

The List may refer to:

• The List (magazine), a Scottish magazine
• The List (South Park), an episode of the television show South Park
• The List (The X-Files), an episode of the television show The X-Files
• The List (2007 film), a film based on the novel by Robert Whitlow
• The List (album), an album by Rosanne Cash

See also[link]

• Liszt (surname)
• Listing (disambiguation)

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Look up rail in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Rail or rails may refer to:

Railway transportation

• A generic term for railroads, railways, rail transport, and related matters
• Rail tracks, or railway lines, the running surface of a railway
• Rail profile, the cross sectional shape of a railway rail
• Third rail, a method of providing electric power to a railway train
• Conductor rail, a structural steel surface fitted alongside a rail track to provide electrical power to the train

Science, technology, biology, and medicine

• Picatinny rail, a bracket used on some firearms in order to provide a standardized mounting platform for telescopic sights and other accessories
• Rails or Rallidae, a family of birds which includes crakes, coots, and gallinules
• Railing, a slang term for insufflation (medicine), whereby a substance, such as cocaine, is inhaled for recreational effects
• Structural
  • Guard rail, for protective separation of persons (including those in vehicles) from dangerous places or situations
  • Hand rail, for physical support, such as on stairways and steps
  • Theatre rail, see batten (theater), from which lighting fixtures, theatrical scenery, tabs or curtains may be hung
  • Curtain rail, see curtain, from which curtains are hung
  • Door rails, see frame and panel, a horizontal outside member on a door or in a frame and panel construction
• Electrical engineering
  • Power supply rail or voltage rail, a single voltage provided by a power supply unit

Other users

• Crayon Rails, the generic term for a board game which recreates the building of railroads via the use of crayons
• Rail (1967 short film), made by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films
• An archaic term for sexual intercourse^{[citation needed]}
• Ruby on Rails, often shortened to "Rails" or "RoR", is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language

See also[link]

• RAIL, disambiguation page
• Railway (disambiguation)

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A railing accident at a college football game, spilling fans onto the side lines

An accident or mishap is an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance, often with lack of intention or necessity. It usually implies a generally negative outcome which may have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its occurrence.

Experts in the field of injury prevention avoid use of the term 'accident' to describe events that cause injury in an attempt to highlight the predictable and preventable nature of most injuries. Such incidents are viewed from the perspective of epidemiology - predictable and preventable. Preferred words are more descriptive of the event itself, rather than of its unintended nature (e.g., collision, drowning, fall, etc.)

Accidents of particularly common types (crashing of automobiles, events causing fire, etc.) are investigated to identify how to avoid them in the future. This is sometimes called root cause analysis, but does not generally apply to accidents that cannot be deterministically predicted. A root cause of an uncommon and purely random accident may never be identified, and thus future similar accidents remain "accidental."

Types[link]

Physical and non-physical[link]

Physical examples of accidents include unintended collisions or falls, being injured by touching something sharp, hot, or electrical, or ingesting poison. Non-physical examples are unintentionally revealing a secret or otherwise saying something incorrectly, forgetting an appointment, etc.

By activity[link]

• Accidents during the execution of work or arising out of it are called work accidents. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), more than 337 million accidents happen on the job each year, resulting, together with occupational diseases, in more than 2.3 million deaths annually.^[1]
• In contrast, leisure-related accidents are mainly sports injuries.

By vehicle[link]

• Bike accident
• Tram accident
• Traffic collision
• Sailing ship accidents

Most common causes[link]

Incidence of accidents, sorted by activity (in Denmark in 2002).

For physical traumas or injuries leading to hospital discharge, most common causes are traffic accidents and falls

See also[link]

• Injury
• Accident-proneness
• Air safety
  • Aviation accidents and incidents
• Aisles: Safety and regulatory considerations
• Bike
  • Bicycle safety
• Car
  • Automobile safety
  • Traffic collision
• Explosives safety
• List of rail accidents
  • List of train accidents by death toll
• Nuclear and radiation accidents
• Risk management
• Sailing ship
  • Sailing ship accidents
• Safety
• Safety engineering
  • Fail-safe
  • Poka-yoke
• Human error model
  • [Jaccident - the official term for numerous consecutive successful fails.]
  • [n. on 10, March 2011 the official term has been changed to Classident, the definition remains intact.]
• Tram accident
• Workplace safety
  • Material safety data sheet
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Occupational safety and health
  • Criticality accident
• Accident analysis

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External links[link]

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