cataloged

1. 1
   verbUS

   Simple past and past participle of catalog.

   The museum cataloged its entire fossil holdings over five years.

   Every specimen had been cataloged before the exhibit opened.

   Note

   The American spelling at work: catalog is the US alternative to catalogue, so this form corresponds to catalogued in the longer spelling. One form does double duty. As the simple past it stands alone (the museum cataloged its holdings), and as the participle it follows have or be (had been cataloged). Placed before a noun, the participle settles into the adjective meaning "sorted", as in a cataloged archive.

2. 2
   adjective

   Sorted and arranged into an organized system of classification.

   The fully cataloged archive let scholars locate documents within minutes.

   Researchers preferred the cataloged specimens to the unsorted boxes in storage.

   Similarindexed, classified, sorted, organized

   Oppositeunsorted, uncataloged

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