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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A list or register of separate items; an itemized statement or enumeration; specifically, a list or enumeration of the names of men or things, with added particulars, disposed in a certain order, generally alphabetical: as, a catalogue of the students of a college, of the stars, or of a museum or a library. See card-catalogue.
  2. n. Synonyms List, Catalogue. List means a mere enumeration of individual persons or articles, while catalogue properly supposes some description, with the names in a certain order. Thus we speak of a subscription list, but of the catalogue of a museum or a library.
  3. To make a catalogue of; enter in a catalogue.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.
  2. n. A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.
  3. n. A list of all the publications in a library.
  4. n. US A university calendar.
  5. n. computing, dated A directory listing.
  6. v. To put into a catalogue.
  7. v. To make a catalogue of.
  8. v. To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order.
  2. v. To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically
  2. v. make an itemized list or catalog of; classify.
  3. n. a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things
  4. v. make a catalogue, compile a catalogue

Etymologies

  1. 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.") (Wiktionary)

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