cataloguenoun
UK US catalog uk/ˈkæt.əl.ɒɡ/us/ˈkæt̬.əl.ɑːɡ/catalogue noun (LIST)
B2 [ C ] a book with a list of all the goods that you can buy from a shop:
a mail-order catalogue
[ C ] a list of all the books, paintings, etc. that exist in a place
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- Do you often buy goods from mail-order catalogues?
- Our autumn catalogue is now available from our usual stockists.
- Granddad was browsing through a seed and plant catalogue.
- I've sent off for a catalogue, as I can't get in to their Cambridge shop nowadays.
- If you order goods from the catalogue, they usually arrive within the week.
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Lists and catalogues
- a laundry list idiom
- a list as long as your arm idiom
- agenda
- archivist
- bucket list
- concordance
- GI
- honours list
- indices
- inventory
- laundry
- listicle
- roll
- rota
- shortlist
- tally
- taxonomy
- telephone book
- transfer list
- wordlist
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catalogue noun (BAD EVENTS)
[ S ] A catalogue of unwanted events is a series of them:
The whole holiday was a catalogue of disasters.
a catalogue of errors/crimes/complaints
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Order and sequence - general words
- alphabetize
- back end
- back end
- be a chapter of accidents idiom
- chain reaction
- ladder
- merry-go-round
- next
- nth
- penultimate
- precedence
- run
- running
- second 1
- series
- succession
- thirdly
- timeline
- train
- vice versa
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catalogueverb [ T ]
uk/ˈkæt.əl.ɒɡ/us/ˈkæt̬.əl.ɑːɡ/to record something, especially in a list:
Many plants become extinct before they have even been catalogued.
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrange
- arrangement
- categorize
- classification
- format
- kingdom
- lay sth out
- prioritize
- put sth/sb in a pigeonhole idiom
- range
- reconstruct
- rejig
- scientific
- stream
- topology
- track
- tracking
- triage
- umbrella
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