Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A catalogue, as of books in a library, in which the entries are made on separate cards, which are then arranged in order in boxes or drawers.
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Examples
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The dates given by staff workers tallied with the card-catalogue records and could, as Horn learned, be positively correlated to the bombing raids that had become a daily fact of life in Nürnberg.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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The dates given by staff workers tallied with the card-catalogue records and could, as Horn learned, be positively correlated to the bombing raids that had become a daily fact of life in Nürnberg.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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He stands up for Poivre by Caron, despite a "prickly, clovy, tacky-varnishy, old-upholsteryish, neglected card-catalogue dryness," since "love has its blind spots" and he wears it.
James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Tone Deaf Republicans, Rock Stars, and Subprime Wolves 2008
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He is lost in a library, whether among the book-shelves or at a card-catalogue.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker
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I give the numbers in the order in which they are arranged in the card-catalogue.
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In a case like this the card-catalogue is of great assistance; for example, I wish to examine here the _chiffres_ Nos.
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I have made a set of MS. copies of these signs and included them in my card-catalogue, and have carefully compared them with the tablets XXIV and LVI.
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The Country Squire had a card-catalogue of the books in his library, and he delighted to make therein entries of his past and his new purchases.
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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The card-catalogue which I have mentioned enables me to at once pick out all the cases of which the above are specimens, taken just as they fell under my eye in rapidly turning over the cards.
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To settle the question whether they were written on the same system, I give here the results of a rapid survey of the card-catalogue of hieroglyphs.
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