to catalog
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3.9
- verb
- /ˈkætəlɒɡ/
- US
:
catalogar
- The debates over whether libraries need catalogers, the necessity of cataloging education, and the future of cataloging continue.
- cataloging course
- catalog items
- cataloging practice
And 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
134
4.1
To collect and arrange information and materials into a list or book
110
3.4
To put people or things into groups based on shared features
37
2.8
To put things into groups and into the right order
19
2.9
To put people or things into groups by shared features
17
4.2
To list items so people can find them in a book or database
12
4.1
To make a list of goods and their amounts in a business
Compounds
2
3.4
A list of classes a college or university offers with times, requirements, and descriptions
- Archaic
1
3.7
A set of paper cards in drawers that lists library books and where to find them
- Texting
1
3.8
An online layout that shows items as small boxes with a picture and a little information
- Specialized
A book or list that shows items for machines like cars, with numbers and prices
How Thorough
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.