Catalogue

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈkæt.É™.lÉ’É¡/
• US IPA: /ˈkætÉ™lɔɡ/
• US IPA: /ˈkætÉ™lÉ‘É¡/

Alternative forms

• catalog US, often Canada

Origin

From Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katalogos, "an enrollment, a register, a list, catalogue"), from καταλέγω (katalego, "to recount, to tell at length or in order, to make a list"), from κατά (kata, "downwards, towards") + λέγω (lego, "to gather, to pick up, to choose for oneself, to pick out, to count").

Full definition of catalogue

Noun

1. A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.
• 2012, May 5, Phil McNulty, Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.
2. A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.
3. A list of all the publications in a library.
4. (US) A university calendar.
5. (computing, dated) A directory listing.
• 1983, Helpline (in Sinclair User issue 21)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.
• 2003, "Brotha G", Repairing Microdrive Cartridges (on newsgroup comp.sys.sinclair)It has two extra options using extended syntax. CAT - an extended catalogue but not as detailed as some I've seen. ( The reason that the Spectrum CAT command is restricted is that it cleverly uses the 512 bytes data buffer of the microdrive channel to sort the filenames - hence the limit of 50 ten-character filenames )

Synonyms

Verb

1. To put into a catalogue.
2. To make a catalogue of.
3. To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.

Related terms

• cataloguer
• cataloguise
• cataloguing
• catalogue raisonné

Anagrams

• coagulate