CATALOGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catalogue mean? 

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

1. a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically

2. a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things

  Familiarity information: CATALOGUE used as a noun is rare.

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

1. make an itemized list or catalog of; classify

2. make a catalogue, compile a catalogue

  Familiarity information: CATALOGUE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATALOGUE (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("catalogue" 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 "catalogue"):

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:

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

catalogue (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

Sense 2

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 ("catalogue" 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 "catalogue"):

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

Derivation:

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

catalogue (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

• CATALOGUE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they catalogue    ... he / she / it catalogues   
Past simple: catalogued   
Past participle: catalogued   
-ing form: cataloguing   

Sense 1

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 "catalogue" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cataloger (a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system)

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

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

cataloguer (a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system)

Sense 2

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 "catalogue" is one way to...):

compile; compose (put together out of existing material)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

cataloger (a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system)

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

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

cataloguer (a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system)

 Context examples 

I have been making a duplicate of the catalogue of my father's books and pictures.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In fact, the star is so weird that astronomers have nicknamed it "Nasty 1," a play on its catalogue name of NaSt1.

(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)

The region of sky pictured is listed in the Sharpless catalogue of H II regions: interstellar clouds of ionised gas, rife with star formation.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

The catalogue also includes such clusters as the Fornax cluster, the Hercules cluster, and Pandora’s cluster.

(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and King’s College London have developed a comprehensive catalogue of the mutational signatures caused by 41 environmental agents linked to cancer.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)

That cluster, catalogued as NGC 6604 (eso1218), appears in this image on the object’s left side.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

To produce the new catalogue, they used taxonomic information that has been updated and verified by hundreds of specialists from all over the world, such as the data available on Flora de Brasil 2020.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)

He had the short body, the big shoulders, the round chest, no neck, a great ruddy frill of a beard, the tufted eyebrows, the 'What do you want, damn you!' look about the eyes, and the whole catalogue.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is qualified to teach the usual branches of a good English education, together with French, Drawing, and Music (in those days, reader, this now narrow catalogue of accomplishments, would have been held tolerably comprehensive).

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions. Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)