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catalog

KAT-uh-lawg/ˈkætəlɔɡ/UKKAT-uh-log/ˈkætəlɒɡ/

Pluralcatalogs

Verbcatalogs, cataloging, cataloged

UK spellingcatalogue

10 meanings of catalog

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  1. 1
    store magazinenouncountable
    A store's magazine that shows the things it sells so you can order them and have them delivered.

    We looked through the toy catalog and circled the things we wanted.

    Every fall a thick clothing catalog shows up in our mailbox.

  2. 2
    library listnouncountable
    A list of all the books and other printed works that a library has.

    You can search the library catalog to see if the book is on the shelf.

    The catalog shows that the library owns three copies of the novel.

    Similarindex

  3. 3
    nouncountable
    An organized list of things, such as books, names, or pictures.

    The museum keeps a catalog of every painting in its collection.

    He made a catalog of all the birds he saw that summer.

    Similarlist, inventory, register, index

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  4. 4
    add to recordsverbtransitive
    To add something, such as a book, to a catalog.

    The librarian will catalog the new books on Monday.

    Volunteers cataloged every photo that people gave to the museum.

    Similarrecord, list, register, index, log

  5. 5
    verbtransitive
    To make a careful list of all the things in a group.

    She wants to catalog all the plants in her garden.

    The kids cataloged every kind of shell they found on the beach.

    Similardocument, list, record, itemize

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  6. 6
    artist's songsnouncountable
    A full list of all the songs of one singer, band, or songwriter.

    The band's catalog has more than two hundred songs.

    She knows every song in the singer's catalog by heart.

    Similarsongbook

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  7. 7
    string of troublesnounfigurativelycountable
    A series of bad or unwelcome things, often of the same kind.

    The trip was a catalog of disasters, from lost bags to a missed flight.

    The new building has had a catalog of problems since it opened.

    Similarstring, series, litany, succession, list

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  8. 8
    college guidenouncountable
    A book a college prints every so often that describes the school, its history, its classes, and its degrees.

    Check the college catalog to see which classes you need to graduate.

    The new catalog lists two more science courses than last year's.

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Less common meanings

  1. 9
    file listnoundatedcountable
    A list showing the files saved in one place on a computer.

    Type CAT to see the catalog of files on the disk.

    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.
    1983, “Helpline”, in Sinclair UserHere, catalogue means a list of the files stored on a computer drive.

    Similardirectory

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  2. 10
    verb
    To sort stamps or find out what they are worth by looking them up in a stamp catalog.

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Origin

From an Ancient Greek word meaning “register”, from a verb meaning “to make a list”. It came into English through Latin and French.