Library / English Dictionary

CATALOGUE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things

Example:

he found it in the Sears catalog

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("catalogue" is a kind of...):

book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catalogue"):

course catalog; course catalogue; prospectus (a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university)

Derivation:

catalogue (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)

catalogue (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A complete list of things; usually arranged systematically

Example:

it does not pretend to be a catalog of his achievements

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("catalogue" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catalogue"):

discography (a descriptive catalog of musical recordings)

library catalog; library catalogue (an enumeration of all the resources of a library)

parts catalog; parts catalogue (a list advertising parts for machinery along with prices)

seed catalog; seed catalogue (a list advertising seeds and their prices)

Derivation:

catalogue (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)

catalogue (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an itemized list or catalog of; classify

Example:

He is cataloguing his photographic negatives

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "catalogue" is one way to...):

assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out (arrange or order by classes or categories)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cataloger (a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system)

catalogue (a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things)

catalogue (a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically)

cataloguer (a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a catalogue, compile a catalogue

Example:

She spends her weekends cataloguing

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "catalogue" is one way to...):

compile; compose (put together out of existing material)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

cataloger (a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system)

catalogue (a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things)

catalogue (a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically)

cataloguer (a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Men had been good or had been bad in his catalogue, but here was a man who was fierce one instant and gentle the next, with a curse on his lips and a smile in his eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not doubt that she had a choice pleasure in exhibiting what she called her self-command, and her firmness, and her strength of mind, and her common sense, and the whole diabolical catalogue of her unamiable qualities, on such an occasion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This advantage has enabled them to extend their discoveries much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a catalogue of ten thousand fixed stars, whereas the largest of ours do not contain above one third part of that number.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Abell 2597 is found in the constellation Aquarius, and is named for its inclusion in the Abell catalogue of rich clusters of galaxies.

(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)

A couple of decades later, French astronomer Charles Messier observed this patch of sky and also documented the nebulosity present there, recording the object as Messier 16 in his influential catalogue (eso0926).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

Scientists in Cambridge and London have developed a catalogue of DNA mutation ‘fingerprints’ that could help doctors pinpoint the environmental culprit responsible for a patient’s tumour – including showing some of the fingerprints left in lung tumours by specific chemicals found in tobacco smoke.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)

I told him “we fed on a thousand things which operated contrary to each other; that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst; that we sat whole nights drinking strong liquors, without eating a bit, which disposed us to sloth, inflamed our bodies, and precipitated or prevented digestion; that prostitute female Yahoos acquired a certain malady, which bred rottenness in the bones of those who fell into their embraces; that this, and many other diseases, were propagated from father to son; so that great numbers came into the world with complicated maladies upon them; that it would be endless to give him a catalogue of all diseases incident to human bodies, for they would not be fewer than five or six hundred, spread over every limb and joint—in short, every part, external and intestine, having diseases appropriated to itself. To remedy which, there was a sort of people bred up among us in the profession, or pretence, of curing the sick. And because I had some skill in the faculty, I would, in gratitude to his honour, let him know the whole mystery and method by which they proceed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from—HEEP—and by—HEEP—fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries—gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

However, because the Swiss astronomer’s catalogue never achieved wider renown, Messier’s re-discovery of the Omega Nebula in 1764 led to its becoming Messier 17, the seventeenth object in the Frenchman’s popular compendium (eso0925).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)