a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
2.
something that contains such a list or record, as a book, leaflet, or file.
3.
a list of the contents of a library or a group of libraries, arranged according to any of various systems. Compare card catalog, on-line catalog, union catalog.
4.
any list or record: a catalog of complaints.
–verb (used with object)
5.
to enter (items) in a catalog; make a catalog of.
–verb (used without object)
6.
to produce a catalog.
7.
to have a specified price as listed in a catalog: This model catalogs for $49.95.
8.
to offer merchandise in a mail-order catalog.
–adjective
9.
of, pertaining to, or carrying on business through a mail-order catalog: catalog sales.
Origin: 1425–75; late ME cataloge < LL catalogus < Gk katálogos a register (akin to katalégein to count up), equiv. to kata-cata-+ -logos reckoning
A list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition or sale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations.
A publication, such as a book or pamphlet, containing such a list or display: a catalog of fall fashions; a seed catalog.
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).
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.
To make an itemized list of: catalog a record collection.
To list or include in a catalog.
To classify (a book or publication, for example) according to a categorical system.
v.
intr.
To make a catalog.
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.] cat'a·log'er, cat'a·logu'er n.
[kat-l-awg, -og] 
