Catalogue

Quick meaning: Catalogue is a noun meaning A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.

Meaning

A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.

More Meanings

1. A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.
2. (computing, dated) A directory listing.
3. (music) A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.
4. (in the singular, figuratively) A series of unwelcome or unpleasant things, often similar.
5. To put into a catalogue.
6. To make a catalogue of.
7. (US) A book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: litany

The accident followed a catalogue of errors.

The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.

He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure.

Word Forms

• catalogues
• catalog
• cataloguing
• catalogued

Synonyms for catalogue

Depending on context, synonyms include list, put down, litany, catalog.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include catalog, cataloguing, publication, library, brochure, index.

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