Definision of Catalogue

cat·a·log or cat·a·logue      n. 1. a. A list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition or sale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations. b. A publication, such as a book or pamphlet, containing such a list or display: a catalog of fall fashions; a seed catalog. 2. A list or enumeration: "the long catalogue of his concerns: unemployment, housing, race, drugs, the decay of the inner city, the environment and family life" (Anthony Holden). 3. A card catalog. v. cat·a·loged or cat·a·logued, cat·a·log·ing or cat·a·logu·ing, cat·a·logs or cat·a·logues v.tr. 1. To make an itemized list of: catalog a record collection. 2. a. To list or include in a catalog. b. To classify (a book or publication, for example) according to a categorical system. v.intr. 1. To make a catalog. 2. To be listed in a catalog: an item that catalogs for 200 dollars. [Middle English cathaloge, list, register, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein, to list : kata-, down, off; see cata- + legein, to count; see leg- in Indo-European roots.] cata·loger, cata·loguer n.

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cat•a•log (ˈkæt lˌɔg, -ˌɒg)

n.

1. a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material.

2. something, as a book or pamphlet, that contains such a list or record.

3. a list of the contents of a library or a group of libraries, arranged according to any of various systems. Compare card catalog.

4. any list or record: a catalog of complaints.

v.t.

5. to enter (items) in a catalog; make a catalog of.

v.i.

6. to produce a catalog.

7. to have a specified price as listed in a catalog.