catalogue

noun

1. a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
2. something that contains such a list or record, as a book, leaflet, or file.
3. 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.
4. any list or record: a catalog of complaints.

verb (used with object), cat·a·loged or cat·a·logued, cat·a·log·ing or cat·a·logu·ing.

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

verb (used without object), cat·a·loged or cat·a·logued, cat·a·log·ing or cat·a·logu·ing.

6. to produce a catalog.
7. to have a specified price as listed in a catalog: This model catalogs for $49.95.
8. to offer merchandise in a mail-order catalog.

adjective

9. of, relating to, or carrying on business through a mail-order catalog: catalog sales.

noun

1. a complete, usually alphabetical list of items, often with notes giving details
2. a book, usually illustrated, containing details of items for sale, esp as used by mail-order companies
3. a list of all the books or resources of a library
4. US and Canadian a publication issued by a university, college, etc, listing courses offered, regulations, services, etc
5. NZ a list of wool lots prepared for auction

verb -logues, -loguing or -logued or US -logs, -loging or -loged

6. to compile a catalogue of (a library)
7. to add (books, items, etc) to an existing catalogue

n.

early 15c., from Old French catalogue “list, index” (14c.), and directly from Late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos “a list, register, enrollment” (e.g. the katalogos neon, the “catalogue of ships” in the “Iliad”), from kata “down; completely” (see cata-) + legein “to say, count” (see lecture (n.)).

v.

1590s, “to make a catalogue;” see catalogue (n.). From 1630s as “to enter into a catalogue.” Related: Catalogued; cataloguing.

see catalogue.