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cataloged

[kat-l-awg, -og] Origin

cat·a·log

[kat-l-awg, -og] noun, verb, cat·a·loged or cat·a·logued, cat·a·log·ing or cat·a·logu·ing, adjective
noun
1.
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.

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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.
Also, cat·a·logue.


Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English cataloge < Late Latin catalogus < Greek katálogos a register (akin to katalégein to count up), equivalent to kata- cata- + -logos reckoning

cat·a·log·er, cat·a·logu·er, cat·a·log·ist, cat·a·logu·ist, noun
cat·a·log·ic [kat-l-oj-ik] , cat·a·log·i·cal, cat·a·lo·gis·tic [kat-l-oh-jis-tik] , adjective
mis·cat·a·log, mis·cat·a·logue, verb (used with object), mis·cat·a·loged or mis·cat·a·logued, mis·cat·a·log·ing or mis·cat·a·logu·ing.
non·cat·a·log, non·cat·a·logue, adjective
re·cat·a·log, verb (used with object), re·cat·a·loged or re·cat·a·ogued, re·cat·a·log·ing or re·cat·a·logu·ing.


1, 3. roster, register, record. See list1.

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