catalogue

• catalog (US, often, Canada)

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæt.ə.lɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkætəlɔɡ/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkætəlɑɡ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

catalogue (plural catalogues)

1. A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.
   • 1999, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles

     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.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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. A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.
5. (US) A university calendar.
6. (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.

   • 2001, "Michael Foot", BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.announce)

     BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.

   • 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 )

• See also Thesaurus:list

catalogue (third-person singular simple present catalogues, present participle cataloguing, simple past and past participle catalogued)

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

• cataloguer
• cataloguise
• cataloguing
• catalogue raisonné

• coagulate

From Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “an enrollment, a register, a list, catalogue”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, to tell at length or in order, to make a list”), from κατά (katá, “downwards, towards”) + λέγω (légō, “to gather, to pick up, to choose for oneself, to pick out, to count”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.lɔɡ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: catalogues

catalogue m (plural catalogues)

1. A systematical catalogue

catalogue

1. first-person singular present indicative of cataloguer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cataloguer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cataloguer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cataloguer
5. second-person singular imperative of cataloguer

• “catalogue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

catalogue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of catalogar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of catalogar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of catalogar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of catalogar

catalogue

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of catalogar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of catalogar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of catalogar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of catalogar.