cat·a·log or cat·a·logue   (kāt'l-ôg', -ŏg')    n.   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.

Catalogue

Cat"a*logue\, n. [F., fr. catalogus, fr. Gr. ? a counting up, list, fr. ? to count up; kata` down, completely + ? to say.] A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.

Card catalogue, a catalogue, as of books, having each item entered on a separate card, and the cards arranged in cases by subjects, or authors, or alphabetically.

Catalogue raisonn['e][F.], a catalogue of books, etc., classed according to their subjects.

Syn: List; roll; index; schedule; enumeration; inventory. See List.

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