to catalog
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3.9
- verb
- /ˈkætəlɒɡ/
- US
- The debates over whether libraries need catalogers, the necessity of cataloging education, and the future of cataloging continue.
- cataloging course
- catalog items
- cataloging practice
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Watch on YouTubeAnd then I started just cataloging all the different cases.
- And then I started just cataloging all the different cases.
- I have never, ever had another discipline claim cataloging and classification.
- Once they pass, we catalog them on the shelf.
- That knowledge can be catalogued over years of people's experience.
- So, you know, I, it's, you know, you, you catalog these different things, different experiences.
- Some records just don't need to be cataloged.
- With what size and shape of paper slips did early modern scholars catalog their books?
- See, when I was in practice, I was trying to catalog all the things I was finding with my patients.
- Now, does that mean I'm suggesting that everyone should race out and start cataloguing and and interpreting their dreams?
- But at that time being a painter, he decided with his wife who was an art critic to catalog, chronicle his own disease through self-portrait.
- And in it they went through and they, they catalogued the total amount of biomass in the ecosphere that is the planet Earth.
Examples
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His Panarion represented an effort to catalog all past and present heresies.
Academic text (2018) -
On the other hand, some published bibliographies catalog the holdings of a particular collection.
Academic text (1992) -
You still have to catalog everything, huh?
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National and international master directory efforts are beginning to catalog the location of data sets.
Academic text (2000) -
You have to archive and catalog and establish ownership.
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I think we should start cataloging the effects of the process.
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In the 1980s, his daughter, Anna, invited me to catalog her father's collection of Egyptian antiquities.
Academic text (2004) -
One of her principal duties was cataloging the cases of discrimination and racial violence in their community.
Academic text (2004) -
When no further debris fell, she sat back down and resumed cataloging urine samples.
Fiction book (1999) -
The librarian spent the afternoon to catalog the new arrivals in the library.
Synonyms
138
4.1
To collect and arrange information and materials into a list or book
108
3.4
To put people or things into groups based on shared features
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4.2
To list items so people can find them in a book or database
15
4.1
To make a list of goods and their amounts in a business
12
2.8
To put things into groups and into the right order
4
2.9
To put people or things into groups by shared features
Compounds
- Archaic
4
3.7
A set of paper cards in drawers that lists library books and where to find them
2
3.4
A list of classes a college or university offers with times, requirements, and descriptions
- Specialized
1
3.5
A book or list that shows items for machines like cars, with numbers and prices
- Texting
1
3.8
An online layout that shows items as small boxes with a picture and a little information
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Catalog as a verb comes from the same Greek parts kata- 'according to' and -logos 'word' or 'list', and it once meant 'to put things into a list'. That's why to catalog something is to list or organize items carefully.