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catalog
[ kat-l-awg, -og ]
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, online 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.
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, relating to, or carrying on business through a mail-order catalog:
catalog sales.
Other Words From
- cata·loger cata·loguer cata·logist cata·loguist noun
- cat·a·log·ic [kat-l-, oj, -ik], cata·logi·cal cat·a·lo·gis·tic [kat-l-oh-, jis, -tik], adjective
- mis·cata·log mis·cata·logue verb (used with object) miscataloged or miscatalogued miscataloging or miscataloguing
- non·cata·log non·cata·logue adjective
- re·cata·log verb (used with object) recataloged or recataogued recataloging or recataloguing
Word History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
As he once told Brassai, the Gagosian exhibition catalog states, “I want to leave as complete a record as possible for posterity.”
Phones on desks, linens on beds, catalog cards spilling out of the filing cabinets—all covered with a fine patina of dust.
To do so would be to catalog a series of Brazilian defensive horrors, each of which was castigated by the Germans.
He has amassed an enormous back catalog of inflammatory comments on matters ranging from women to the “demonic” movie Avatar.
An exhibition catalog, published by Yale University Press, is available for purchase.
The Copyright Office welcomes inquiries, suggestions, and comments on the content and organization of the Catalog.
The following list includes abbreviations and symbols used in this catalog with specific copyright or bibliographic meanings.
The burden upon the memory that this elaborate system of old must have entailed is now transferred to the card catalog.
Any subject that needed to be kept track of could be thus securely noted in the card catalog.
All of these card-catalog and other "devices" are a part of a great movement to put efficiency into every human industry.
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