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Catalogue
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- 1 A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.
"[T]he charge of my moſt curious, and coſtly ingredients fraide, amounting to ſome ſeaventeene thouſand crovvnes, a trifle in reſpect of health, vvriting your noble name in my Catalogue, I ſhall acknovvledge my ſelfe amply ſatisfi'd."
- 2 a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things wordnet
- 3 A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.; A complete (usually alphabetical or chronological) list of items.
- 4 a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically wordnet
- 5 A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.; A list of all the publications in a library; a library catalogue.
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- 6 A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.
- 7 A book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc. US
- 8 A directory listing. dated
"The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated."
- 9 A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.
- 10 A series of unwelcome or unpleasant things, often similar. figuratively, singular
"The accident followed a catalogue of errors."
- 1 To put into a catalogue.
- 2 make an itemized list or catalog of; classify wordnet
- 3 To make a catalogue of.
"The consequences were catalogued by the Royal Commission for Environmental Pollution in 1994, which recommended several measures to constrain the emission of greenhouse gases."
- 4 make a catalogue, compile a catalogue wordnet
- 5 To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.
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- 6 to value or sort stamps using a catalogue
Etymology
From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, make a list”), from κατα- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + λέγω (légō, “to say, to speak, to tell”). Equivalent to cata- + -logue.
From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, make a list”), from κατα- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + λέγω (légō, “to say, to speak, to tell”). Equivalent to cata- + -logue.
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