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cataloguing

[kat-l-awg, -og]

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noun

a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.

something that contains such a list or record, as a book, leaflet, or file.

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.

any list or record: a catalog of complaints.

verb (used with object)

to enter (items) in a catalog; make a catalog of.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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verb (used without object)

to produce a catalog.

to have a specified price as listed in a catalog: This model catalogs for $49.95.

to offer merchandise in a mail-order catalog.

adjective

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

Related forms

cat·a·log·er, cat·a·logu·er, cat·a·log·ist, cat·a·logu·ist, noun

cat·a·log·ic