English
catalogue
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈkæt.ə.lɒɡ/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈkætəlɔɡ/
  • (America, cot-caught, Canada) IPA: /ˈkætəlɑɡ/
Noun

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.
  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 )
Synonyms Translations Translations Translations Translations Translations Verb

catalogue (catalogues, present participle cataloguing; 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.
Synonyms Translations Translations Translations Related terms

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.006
Offline English dictionary