dictionary definitions for "catalogue"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  catalogue
      n 1: a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically;
           "it does not pretend to be a catalogue of his
           achievements" [syn: catalog]
      2: a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things; "he
         found it in the Sears catalog" [syn: catalog]
      v 1: make a catalog of [syn: catalog]
      2: make a catalogue, compile a catalogue of something [syn:
         catalog]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Catalogue \Cat"a*logue\, n. [F., fr. catalogus, fr. Gr. ? a
     counting up, list, fr. ? to count up; kata` down, completely
     + ? to say.]
     A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged
     methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of
     the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Card catalogue, a catalogue, as of books, having each item
        entered on a separate card, and the cards arranged in
        cases by subjects, or authors, or alphabetically.
  
     {Catalogue raisonn['e]}[F.], a catalogue of books, etc.,
        classed according to their subjects.
  
     Syn: List; roll; index; schedule; enumeration; inventory. See
          List.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Catalogue \Cat"a*logue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Catalogued; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Cataloguing.]
     To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.
     [1913 Webster]


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