单词 | catalogue |
释义 | catalogue (once / 514 pages) nv A catalogue is a list of things. Those glossy booklets from your favorite clothing shops that fill your mailbox are catalogues, and so is that online list you consult to find a book at the library. A catalogue — also spelled catalog — can be a list of anything, arranged in some order, and when you list things, you catalogue them. If you're particularly peeved at your brother, you might catalogue for him every annoying thing he's done lately. If you've ever worked in a library, you may have been assigned to catalogue new books, or, at your office, you might catalogue all the printers, listing the make and model of each one. WORD FAMILYcatalogue: catalogued, cataloguer, catalogues, cataloguing+/cataloguer: cataloguers USAGE EXAMPLES“Digitization is laudable, but it never replaces the books themselves, which now need to be carefully studied and catalogued,” she said. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) The writer is founder and president of the Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) That’s why I created the Pre-Snap Reads Quarterback Catalogue, and why I will publish that each year. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) 1n a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically Syn|Hypo|Hyper catalog discography a descriptive catalog of musical recordings library catalog, library cataloguean enumeration of all the resources of a library parts catalog, parts cataloguea list advertising parts for machinery along with prices seed catalog, seed cataloguea list advertising seeds and their prices card catalog, card cataloguea library catalog in which each publication is described on a separate file card list, listing a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) 2n a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things Syn|Hypo|Hyper catalog course catalog, course catalogue, prospectus a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university preliminary prospectus, red herringa first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus book a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together) 3v make an itemized list or catalog of; classify He is cataloguing his photographic negatives Syn|Hyper catalog assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out arrange or order by classes or categories 4v make a catalogue, compile a catalogue She spends her weekends cataloguing Syn|Hyper catalog compile, compose put together out of existing material |
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