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catalogue

/ ˈkætəˌlɒɡ /

noun

  1. a complete, usually alphabetical list of items, often with notes giving details
  2. a book, usually illustrated, containing details of items for sale, esp as used by mail-order companies
  3. a list of all the books or resources of a library
  4. a publication issued by a university, college, etc, listing courses offered, regulations, services, etc
  5. a list of wool lots prepared for auction


verb

  1. to compile a catalogue of (a library)
  2. to add (books, items, etc) to an existing catalogue

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Derived Forms

  • ˈcataˌloguer, noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of catalogue1

C15: from Late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein to list, from kata- completely + legein to collect

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Example Sentences

Every year, we catalogue the best columns of the year here at The Daily Beast.

It was like a constant assault, an almost stupefying catalogue of mindless racial insult and injury.

Catalogue, published by Flammarion (2014), includes photographs from the Magnum Photos archives and text by Éric Hazan.

The accompanying 184 page catalogue includes 154 photos, of which 150 have not previously been published.

Meanwhile CBS announced a similar deal this year that will offer their catalogue of shows online for a monthly fee.

Within a hundred yards I met my two friends, Varnhorst and Guiscard, and poured out my whole catalogue of wrongs at once.

This insect appears to be a Chrysolopus in M. Dejean's Catalogue.

He published a catalogue of all the works known to have been printed from the invention of the art of printing to the year 1536.

Bud set him down on the bunk, gave him a mail-order catalogue to look at, and went out again into the storm.

Is this long catalogue of proofs of such a nature as to inspire us with great confidence in the hidden views of the Divinity?

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