Catalogue Meaning
/ˈkæt.əˌlɒɡ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.
nounA systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc., A complete (usually alphabetical or chronological) list of items.
Sentence Examples
I would like to purchase your latest mail order catalogue.
Would you please send me a catalogue by mail?
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum printed a beautiful ____ of all its paintings for visitors.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She looked through the clothing ____ to find a new dress for tonight.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, make a list”), from κατα- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + λέγω (légō, “to say, to speak, to tell”). Equivalent to cata- + -logue.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[T]he charge of my moſt curious, and coſtly ingredients fraide, amounting to ſome ſeaventeene thouſand crovvnes, a trifle in reſpect of health, vvriting your noble name in my Catalogue, I ſhall acknovvledge my ſelfe amply ſatisfi'd."
— 1631 (first performance), Philip Massinger, The Emperour of the East. A Tragæ-comœdie. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
"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."
— 1999, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles:
"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."
— 1983, “Helpline”, in Sinclair User, number 21:
"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."
— 2001, Michael Foot, “BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released”, in comp.sys.acorn.announce (Usenet):
"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 )"
— 2003, Brotha G, “Repairing Microdrive Cartridges”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum printed a beautiful ____ of all its paintings for visitors.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She looked through the clothing ____ to find a new dress for tonight.