CATALOG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catalog mean? 

• CATALOG (noun)
  The noun CATALOG has 2 senses:

1. a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things

2. a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically

  Familiarity information: CATALOG used as a noun is rare.

• CATALOG (verb)
  The verb CATALOG has 2 senses:

1. make a catalogue, compile a catalogue

2. make an itemized list or catalog of; classify

  Familiarity information: CATALOG used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATALOG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Context example:

he found it in the Sears catalog

Hypernyms ("catalog" is a kind of...):

book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catalog"):

course catalog; course catalogue; prospectus (a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university)

Derivation:

catalog (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)

catalog (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A complete list of things; usually arranged systematically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Context example:

it does not pretend to be a catalog of his achievements

Hypernyms ("catalog" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catalog"):

discography (a descriptive catalog of musical recordings)

library catalog; library catalogue (an enumeration of all the resources of a library)

parts catalog; parts catalogue (a list advertising parts for machinery along with prices)

seed catalog; seed catalogue (a list advertising seeds and their prices)

Derivation:

catalog (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)

catalog (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

• CATALOG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they catalog    ... he / she / it catalogs   
Past simple: cataloged   
Past participle: cataloged   
-ing form: cataloging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a catalogue, compile a catalogue

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Context example:

She spends her weekends cataloguing

Hypernyms (to "catalog" is one way to...):

compile; compose (put together out of existing material)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

catalog (a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things)

catalog (a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make an itemized list or catalog of; classify

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Context example:

He is cataloguing his photographic negatives

Hypernyms (to "catalog" is one way to...):

assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out (arrange or order by classes or categories)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

catalog (a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things)

catalog (a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically)

 Context examples 

With the release of this catalog, derived from data publicly available on the NASA Exoplanet Archive, there are now 4,034 planet candidates identified by Kepler.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)

From January to August 2010, NASA's WISE mapped the entire sky in four infrared wavelengths, cataloging more than half a billion sources.

(WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection, NASA)

You might be cataloging music of a particular era to be sure it is preserved and protected.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A facility that collects, catalogs, and stores samples of biological material, such as urine, blood, tissue, cells, DNA, RNA, and protein, from humans, animals, or plants for laboratory research.

(Biorepository, NCI Dictionary)

The act of registration, entering in a list, catalog, group, study; also, the number of subjects enrolled.

(Enrollment, NCI Thesaurus)

Cataloging, grouping, and flagging data for ready retrieval.

(Information Resources Management, NCI Thesaurus)

Catalog of genes expressed in cells at various stages of tumor development. hGTI is part of CGAP.

(Human Tumor Gene Index, NCI Thesaurus)

Of those species cataloged, only about 10,000 have ever been grown in a lab, and fewer than 100,000 have classified genetic sequences.

(Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species, NSF)

Ever since registers began being made, c. 1500, 139 plant species were officially cataloged as extinct.

(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)

Such an event is called a transit, and has been used to detect many of the exoplanets cataloged to date.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)