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.
1460, from L.L. catalogus, from Gk. katalogos "a list, register," from kata "down, completely" + legein "to say, count" (see lecture). The verb is first attested 1598.