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单词 catalogue
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catalogue

noun
 
/ˈkætəlɒɡ/
/ˈkætəlɔːɡ/
(US English also catalog)
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  1.  
    a complete list of items, for example of things that people can look at or buy
    • a mail-order catalogue (= a book showing goods for sale to be sent to people’s homes)
    • to consult the library catalogue
    • An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
    • Please take a look at our online catalogue.
    see also back catalogue
    Extra Examples
    • More details are given in our catalogue.
    • Send off for our illustrated catalogue of garden plants.
    • The gallery produced a catalogue of young artists.
    • She consulted the museum catalogue.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • colour/​color
    • illustrated
    • mail-order
    • …
    verb + catalogue
    • produce
    • publish
    • browse through
    • …
    preposition
    • in a/​the catalogue
    See full entry
  2. a long series of things that happen (usually bad things)
    • a catalogue of disasters/errors/misfortunes
    Extra Examples
    • The commission reported a catalogue of errors that went right to the top of government.
    • What followed was a whole catalogue of disasters.
    • What we have here is a catalogue of failure.
    • Child protection officers uncovered a catalogue of cruelty and abuse.
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein ‘pick out or enrol’.

catalogue

verb
/ˈkætəlɒɡ/
/ˈkætəlɔːɡ/
(North American English also catalog)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they catalogue
/ˈkætəlɒɡ/
/ˈkætəlɔːɡ/
he / she / it catalogues
/ˈkætəlɒɡz/
/ˈkætəlɔːɡz/
past simple catalogued
/ˈkætəlɒɡd/
/ˈkætəlɔːɡd/
past participle catalogued
/ˈkætəlɒɡd/
/ˈkætəlɔːɡd/
-ing form cataloguing
/ˈkætəlɒɡɪŋ/
/ˈkætəlɔːɡɪŋ/
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  1. catalogue something to arrange a list of things in order in a catalogue; to record something in a catalogue
    • It took six years to catalogue all the paintings.
    • New books are catalogued on an electronic database.
    Extra Examples
    • She painstakingly catalogued all the photographs in the museum.
    • The collection had never been properly catalogued.
    • The statue was catalogued as dating from the 13th century.
  2. catalogue something to give a list of things connected with a particular person, event, etc.
    • Interviews with the refugees catalogue a history of discrimination and violence.
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein ‘pick out or enrol’.
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